biens
\bjɛ̃\
The verdict
“biens” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,851
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biens · biens · French
biens · rank #1,851 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,851
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bernard
Nearest frequency peer: Bernard (-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 « biens »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aurai
aurai
98,153 corpus weight
- autorités
autorités
98,152 corpus weight
- Bernard
Bernard
98,151 corpus weight
- biens
biens
98,150 corpus weight
- bordel
bordel
98,149 corpus weight
- cadeau
cadeau
98,148 corpus weight
What this shows « biens » 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 | biens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « biens »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around biens (IPA \bjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,851 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for biens, with forms such as "bbiens", "beins", and "bienns". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bis", "bin", "bons", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is biens, spelled B-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était là que nous entreposions des voitures, des motos et des bicyclettes abandonnées, volées, retrouvées et pas réclamées, et rangions nos véhicules cassés, la cahute en ciment abritant des foultitudes d’objets illicites, tels revolvers, carabines, couteaux de toutes sortes, pilules, poudres et herbes de toutes autres sortes, publications cochonnes (de…
De fait, Susanna avait toujours su ce qu’elle voulait, et elle avait mis en œuvre les moyens nécessaires pour y parvenir. Ainsi, depuis sa prime jeunesse, Susanna avait ambitionné d’épouser un homme plus âgé qu’elle, sans qu’il soit repoussant pour autant, mais surtout suffisamment riche pour pouvoir jouir de ses biens une fois ce dernier disparu... Et el…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbiens
- beins
- bienns
- bienss
- biesn
- bines
- ibens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of biens - 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).