bibliophile
\bi.bli.ɔ.fil\
The verdict
“bibliophile” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,893
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Amateur de livres rares et précieux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bibliophile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.bli.ɔ.fil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #44,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bibliophile” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around bibliophile (IPA \bi.bli.ɔ.fil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,893 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Amateur de livres rares et précieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for bibliophile, with forms such as "bbibliophile", "bbiliophile", and "bibbliophile". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bibliophile, spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-P-H-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Amateur de livres rares et précieux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbibliophile
- bbiliophile
- bibbliophile
- bibilophile
- bibliohpile
- bibliophhile
- bibliophiel
- bibliophille
- bibliophlie
- bibliopihle
- bibliopphile
- biblipohile
- biblliophile
- bibloiphile
- bilbiophile
- ibbliophile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bibliophile - 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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Using “bibliophile”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-B-L-I-O-P-H-I-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bi.bli.ɔ.fil\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.