bigorre
\bi.ɡɔʁ\
The verdict
“bigorre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,180
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom, au XVIIᵉ siècle, de nouvelles à la main que l’abbé Bigorre adressait à diverses personnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bigorre · bigorre · French
bigorre · rank #39,180 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,180
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bicentenaire
Nearest frequency peer: bicentenaire (-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 « bigorre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- berce
berce
60,824 corpus weight
- besse
besse
60,823 corpus weight
- bicentenaire
bicentenaire
60,822 corpus weight
- bigorre
bigorre
60,821 corpus weight
- binet
binet
60,820 corpus weight
- Blandine
Blandine
60,819 corpus weight
What this shows « bigorre » 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 | bigorre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ɡɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bigorre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bigorre (IPA \bi.ɡɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,180 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom, au XVIIᵉ siècle, de nouvelles à la main que l’abbé Bigorre adressait à diverses personnes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bigorre, with forms such as "bbigorre", "bgiorre", and "biggorre". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bizarre", "bagarre", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bigorre, spelled B-I-G-O-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom, au XVIIᵉ siècle, de nouvelles à la main que l’abbé Bigorre adressait à diverses personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bigorre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous connaissez les petits Bigorres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbigorre
- bgiorre
- biggorre
- bigore
- bigorer
- bigrore
- biogrre
- ibgorre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bigorre - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).