bibliothécaire

\bi.bli.jɔ.te.kɛʁ\

/\bi.bli.jɔ.te.kɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“bibliothécaire” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,355
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
21
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne travaillant dans une bibliothèque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bibliothecaire · bibliothécaire · French

bibliothécaire · rank #17,355 · 21 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #17,355
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 21 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Beauce

Nearest frequency peer: Beauce (-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 « bibliothécaire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bibliothécaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bibliothécaire vs bibliothécaires
93% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bibliothécaire
PropertyValue
Headwordbibliothécaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bi.bli.jɔ.te.kɛʁ\
Letters14
Frequency rank#17,355
Misspellings tracked21
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bibliothécaire »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bibliothécairese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Beauce » (#17,354), « Bolloré » (#17,356), « bannir » (#17,353). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bibliothécaire » est au #17,355. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 21 spelling variants around bibliothécaire (IPA \bi.bli.jɔ.te.kɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,355 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne travaillant dans une bibliothèque.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for bibliothécaire, with forms such as "bbibliothécaire", "bbiliothécaire", and "bibbliothécaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bibliothécaires", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bibliothécaire, spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-T-H-É-C-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne travaillant dans une bibliothèque.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bibliothécaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un bibliothécaire adjoint.
  2. Le bibliothécaire de l’institut est très serviable.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbibliothécaire
  • bbiliothécaire
  • bibbliothécaire
  • bibilothécaire
  • bibliohtécaire
  • bibliothcéaire
  • bibliothecaire
  • bibliothhécaire
  • bibliothéacire
  • bibliothécaier
  • bibliothécairre
  • bibliothécarie
  • bibliothéccaire
  • bibliothéciare
  • bibliotthécaire
  • bibliotéhcaire
  • biblitohécaire
  • biblliothécaire
  • bibloithécaire
  • bilbiothécaire
  • ibbliothécaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bibliothécaire - 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.

bbibliothécaire1bbiliothécaire2bibbliothécaire1bibilothécaire2bibliohtécaire2bibliothcéaire2bibliothecaire1bibliothhécaire1
Edit distance from "bibliothécaire"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bibliothécaire"?
"bibliothécaire" is spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-T-H-É-C-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bi.bli.jɔ.te.kɛʁ\.
What does "bibliothécaire" mean?
As a noun, "bibliothécaire" means: Personne travaillant dans une bibliothèque.
What words are commonly confused with "bibliothécaire"?
"bibliothécaire" is commonly confused with "bibliothécaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bibliothécaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bibliothécaire" is \bi.bli.jɔ.te.kɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bibliothécaire" come from?
"bibliothécaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bibliothécaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list