better
\ˈbɛɾ.ɚ\
The verdict
“better” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,131
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comparatif de good (« bien ») : meilleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-better · better · French
better · rank #18,131 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,131
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beth
Nearest frequency peer: beth (-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 « better »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- balnéaire
balnéaire
81,873 corpus weight
- beth
beth
81,871 corpus weight
- better
better
81,870 corpus weight
- bey
bey
81,869 corpus weight
- blason
blason
81,868 corpus weight
- blonds
blonds
81,867 corpus weight
What this shows « better » 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 | better |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈbɛɾ.ɚ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « better »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around better (IPA \ˈbɛɾ.ɚ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,131 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Comparatif de good (« bien ») : meilleur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for better, with forms such as "bbetter", "beter", and "betetr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Betty", "buter", "botté", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is better, spelled B-E-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Comparatif de good (« bien ») : meilleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how better appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In that exercise a better approximation of the square root was generated with each additional loop iteration.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbetter
- beter
- betetr
- betterr
- bettre
- bteter
- ebtter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of better - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).