bess
\bɛs\
The verdict
“bess” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,891) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,891
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom égyptien des nains mythologiques; ce sont des dieux nains, trapus, aux jambes courtes et à la barbe frisée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bess · bess · French
bess · rank #44,891 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,891
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bellemare
Nearest frequency peer: Bellemare (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bess »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Baudoin
Baudoin
55,113 corpus weight
- Belize
Belize
55,112 corpus weight
- Bellemare
Bellemare
55,111 corpus weight
- bess
bess
55,110 corpus weight
- BH
BH
55,109 corpus weight
- bibliophile
bibliophile
55,108 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bess » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bess |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bess »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bess is neighbouring look-alikes ("BS", "bus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bɛs\. Frequency #44,891 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Nom égyptien des nains mythologiques; ce sont des dieux nains, trapus, aux jambes courtes et à la barbe frisée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bess, with forms such as "bbess", "bes", and "bses". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BS", "bus", "bis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bess, spelled B-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Nom égyptien des nains mythologiques; ce sont des dieux nains, trapus, aux jambes courtes et à la barbe frisée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbess
- bes
- bses
- ebss
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bess - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).