bestiaire
\bɛs.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“bestiaire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,675. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,675
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de gladiateur qui affrontait des animaux féroces pendant les jeux du cirque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bestiaire · bestiaire · French
bestiaire · rank #38,675 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,675
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bertha
Nearest frequency peer: Bertha (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bestiaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- beef
beef
61,329 corpus weight
- Bertha
Bertha
61,327 corpus weight
- bestiaire
bestiaire
61,326 corpus weight
- bifurcation
bifurcation
61,325 corpus weight
- bills
bills
61,324 corpus weight
- biopic
biopic
61,323 corpus weight
What this shows « bestiaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bestiaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛs.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bestiaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bestiaire (IPA \bɛs.tjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,675 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bestiaire, with forms such as "bbestiaire", "besitaire", and "besstiaire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bestiaire, spelled B-E-S-T-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de gladiateur qui affrontait des animaux féroces pendant les jeux du cirque.
- 2Condamné mis à mort par des animaux.
- 3Endroit où on parquait les fauves des jeux du cirque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bestiaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment concilier la passion immodérée des Romains pour les combats du cirque, et l'infamie dont ils couvraient les instrumens de ces cruels spectacles, les arénaires, bestiaires, gladiateurs ?
Sur la première feuille, on voit le consul assis entre deux jeunes gens debout, assistant aux jeux du cirque. En bas, un bestiaire combat contre quatre lions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbestiaire
- besitaire
- besstiaire
- bestaiire
- bestiaier
- bestiairre
- bestiarie
- bestiiare
- besttiaire
- betsiaire
- bsetiaire
- ebstiaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bestiaire - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).