Béziers
\be.zje\
The verdict
“Béziers” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,125. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,125
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Hérault.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beziers · Béziers · French
Béziers · rank #13,125 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,125
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bénéficiant
Nearest frequency peer: bénéficiant (-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 « Béziers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brebis
brebis
86,879 corpus weight
- brésiliens
brésiliens
86,878 corpus weight
- bénéficiant
bénéficiant
86,877 corpus weight
- Béziers
Béziers
86,876 corpus weight
- cabaret
cabaret
86,875 corpus weight
- cachet
cachet
86,873 corpus weight
What this shows « Béziers » 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 | Béziers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.zje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Béziers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Béziers (IPA \be.zje\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,125 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de l’Hérault.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Béziers, with forms such as "bbéziers", "beziers", and "bzéiers". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bélier", "bergers", "béliers", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Béziers, spelled B-É-Z-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Hérault.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Béziers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1240, ce jeune vicomte Raymond de Trincavel, dernier des vicomtes de Béziers, […] s’empare, sans se heurter à une sérieuse résistance, des châteaux de Montréal, des villes de Montolieu, de Saissac, de Limoux, d’Azillan, de Laurens et se présente devant Carcassonne.
Leurs artisans sont des militants issus du guesdisme puisque actifs dans le Parti ouvrier dès le début des années 1890, comme Élie Cathala à Maraussan, village voisin de Béziers, et Camille Reboul à Mudaison, village proche de Montpellier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbéziers
- beziers
- bzéiers
- béizers
- bézeirs
- bézierrs
- bézierss
- béziesr
- bézires
- bézziers
- ébziers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Béziers - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).