bétail
\be.taj\
The verdict
“bétail” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,126. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,126
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des animaux domestiques d’une exploitation rurale, en exceptant la volaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-betail · bétail · French
bétail · rank #9,126 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,126
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bulletins
Nearest frequency peer: bulletins (-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 « bétail »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bourgeoisie
bourgeoisie
90,877 corpus weight
- bulletins
bulletins
90,876 corpus weight
- bétail
bétail
90,875 corpus weight
- cachent
cachent
90,874 corpus weight
- Carlo
Carlo
90,873 corpus weight
- cessez
cessez
90,872 corpus weight
What this shows « bétail » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | bétail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.taj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bétail »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bétail (IPA \be.taj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,126 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bétail, with forms such as "bbétail", "betail", and "btéail". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bail", "bêta", "Béjaïa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bétail, spelled B-É-T-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des animaux domestiques d’une exploitation rurale, en exceptant la volaille.
- 2Collectivité, humanité.
- 3Personne de forte corpulence.
- 4Insecte.
- 5Personne rustre, grossière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bétail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le courant de 1849, la maladie apparut une seconde fois dans son bétail, qui pacageait sur la montagne du Trap.
Les Aconits, les Asphodèles, les grandes Gentianes qui sont la parure de nos pâturages subalpins sont des plantes refusées par le bétail.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbétail
- betail
- btéail
- béatil
- bétaill
- bétali
- bétial
- béttail
- ébtail
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bétail - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).