bidonvilles
\bi.dɔ̃.vil\
The verdict
“bidonvilles” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,661. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,661
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bidonville.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bidonvilles · bidonvilles · French
bidonvilles · rank #29,661 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,661
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beyond
Nearest frequency peer: beyond (-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 « bidonvilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- banalisation
banalisation
70,344 corpus weight
- banqueroute
banqueroute
70,343 corpus weight
- beyond
beyond
70,341 corpus weight
- bidonvilles
bidonvilles
70,340 corpus weight
- Blainville
Blainville
70,339 corpus weight
- blindage
blindage
70,337 corpus weight
What this shows « bidonvilles » 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 | bidonvilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.dɔ̃.vil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bidonvilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around bidonvilles (IPA \bi.dɔ̃.vil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,661 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bidonville.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for bidonvilles, with forms such as "bbidonvilles", "bdionvilles", and "biddonvilles". 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, "bidonville", 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 bidonvilles, spelled B-I-D-O-N-V-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bidonville.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbidonvilles
- bdionvilles
- biddonvilles
- bidnovilles
- bidonivlles
- bidonnvilles
- bidonvilels
- bidonviles
- bidonvilless
- bidonvillse
- bidonvliles
- bidonvvilles
- bidovnilles
- biodnvilles
- ibdonvilles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bidonvilles - 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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