big
\ˈbɪɡ\
The verdict
“big” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,759) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,759
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-big · big · French
big · rank #2,759 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,759
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Berlin
Nearest frequency peer: Berlin (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « big »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- attaques
attaques
97,245 corpus weight
- auras
auras
97,244 corpus weight
- Berlin
Berlin
97,243 corpus weight
- big
big
97,242 corpus weight
- billet
billet
97,241 corpus weight
- bière
bière
97,240 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « big » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | big |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈbɪɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « big »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for big is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈbɪɡ\. Frequency #2,759 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for big, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is big, spelled B-I-G.
Definition
- 1Grand.
- 2Gros (dans un contexte plus abstrait).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how big appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Big boss man, big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? I said you ain't so big, you're just tall that's all.
big job, big discussion
Synonyms
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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