bidet
\bi.dɛ\
The verdict
“bidet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,626. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,626
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit cheval trapu souvent utilisé autrefois par les courriers de poste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bidet · bidet · French
bidet · rank #40,626 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,626
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bicyclettes
Nearest frequency peer: bicyclettes (-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 « bidet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- Bonifacio
Bonifacio
59,372 corpus weight
What this shows « bidet » 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 | bidet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bidet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bidet (IPA \bi.dɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,626 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit cheval trapu souvent utilisé autrefois par les courriers de poste.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bidet, with forms such as "bbidet", "bdiet", and "biddet". 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, "bit", "bie", "bien", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bidet, spelled B-I-D-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit cheval trapu souvent utilisé autrefois par les courriers de poste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bidet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un double bidet : une botte de foing, une de paille, & trois piccotins d’avoine.
Il [Louis XV] commençait à monter un petit bidet, et il alla demander au roi la permission d’y aller [à la revue des gendarmes].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbidet
- bdiet
- biddet
- bidett
- bidte
- biedt
- ibdet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bidet - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).