Bethesda
The verdict
“Bethesda” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,624. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,624
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piscine probatique, dans Jérusalem.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bethesda · Bethesda · French
Bethesda · rank #40,624 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,624
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Baudry
Nearest frequency peer: Baudry (-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 « Bethesda »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bastian
bastian
59,381 corpus weight
- battit
battit
59,379 corpus weight
- Baudry
Baudry
59,378 corpus weight
- Bethesda
Bethesda
59,377 corpus weight
- bicyclettes
bicyclettes
59,376 corpus weight
- bidet
bidet
59,375 corpus weight
What this shows « Bethesda » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bethesda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bethesda »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Bethesda, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,624 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Piscine probatique, dans Jérusalem.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bethesda, with forms such as "bbethesda", "behtesda", and "betehsda". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Bethesda, spelled B-E-T-H-E-S-D-A.
Definition
- 1Piscine probatique, dans Jérusalem.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bethesda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, à Jérusalem, près de la porte des brebis, il y a une piscine qui s’appelle en hébreu Béthesda, et qui a cinq portiques. Sous ces portiques étaient couchés en grand nombre des malades, des aveugles, des boiteux, des paralytiques, qui attendaient le mouvement de l’eau ; car un ange descendait de temps en temps dans la piscine, et agitait l’eau ; et celu…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbethesda
- behtesda
- betehsda
- bethedsa
- bethesad
- bethesdda
- bethessda
- bethhesda
- bethseda
- betthesda
- btehesda
- ebthesda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bethesda - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).