bidonville
\bi.dɔ̃.vil\
The verdict
“bidonville” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,435. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,435
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble d'habitations de fortune habité par des personnes avec peu de moyens, construit en marge de grandes agglomérations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bidonville · bidonville · French
bidonville · rank #34,435 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,435
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bete
Nearest frequency peer: bete (-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 « bidonville »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- banquets
banquets
65,569 corpus weight
- barde
barde
65,568 corpus weight
- bete
bete
65,567 corpus weight
- bidonville
bidonville
65,566 corpus weight
- bivouac
bivouac
65,565 corpus weight
- blida
blida
65,564 corpus weight
What this shows « bidonville » 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 | bidonville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.dɔ̃.vil\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bidonville »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around bidonville (IPA \bi.dɔ̃.vil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,435 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble d'habitations de fortune habité par des personnes avec peu de moyens, construit en marge de grandes agglomérations.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for bidonville, with forms such as "bbidonville", "bdionville", and "biddonville". 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, "bidonvilles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bidonville, spelled B-I-D-O-N-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble d'habitations de fortune habité par des personnes avec peu de moyens, construit en marge de grandes agglomérations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bidonville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’impact […] s’inscrit dans la géographie des villes, des quartiers et des bidonvilles où les migrants tendent à se regrouper par ethnies, il s’inscrit aussi au niveau régional, accentuant les déséquilibres entre régions dynamiques et en crise.
Les images de forêts luxuriantes, de montagnes enneigées et de réserves naturelles masquent celles des natures urbaines, des bidonvilles et des plantations.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbidonville
- bdionville
- biddonville
- bidnoville
- bidonivlle
- bidonnville
- bidonvile
- bidonvilel
- bidonvlile
- bidonvville
- bidovnille
- biodnville
- ibdonville
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bidonville - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).