bilatéral

\bi.la.te.ʁal\

/\bi.la.te.ʁal\/ adj

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The verdict

“bilatéral” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,893
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a deux côtés symétriques.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bilateral · bilatéral · French

bilatéral · rank #34,893 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,893
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH beast

Nearest frequency peer: beast (-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 « bilatéral »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bilatéral » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bilatéral vs bilatérale
90% similar
bilatéral vs bilatéraux
80% similar
bilatéral vs bilatérales
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bilatéral
PropertyValue
Headwordbilatéral
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\bi.la.te.ʁal\
Letters9
Frequency rank#34,893
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bilatéral »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).bilatéralse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « beast » (#34,892), « Biotechnologie » (#34,894), « Bastiais » (#34,891). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bilatéral » est au #34,893. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around bilatéral (IPA \bi.la.te.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,893 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bilatéral, with forms such as "bbilatéral", "bialtéral", and "bilateral". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bilatérale", "bilatéraux", "bilatérales", 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 bilatéral, spelled B-I-L-A-T-É-R-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a deux côtés symétriques.
  2. 2
    Entre deux parties.
  3. 3
    Qui est réciproque, qui assigne des obligations aux deux parties contractantes → voir synallagmatique.
  4. 4
    Se dit d’un mode de descendance ou filiation passant aussi bien et indifféremment par les hommes que par les femmes → voir cognatique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bilatéral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Arêtes bilatérales.
  2. Des accords bilatéraux.

This word in other languages

bilateral(English)zweiseitig(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbilatéral
  • bialtéral
  • bilateral
  • bilatréal
  • bilattéral
  • bilatéarl
  • bilatérall
  • bilatérla
  • bilatérral
  • bilaétral
  • billatéral
  • biltaéral
  • bliatéral
  • iblatéral

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bilatéral - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

bbilatéral1bialtéral2bilateral1bilatréal2bilattéral1bilatéarl2bilatérall1bilatérla2
Edit distance from "bilatéral"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bilatéral"?
"bilatéral" is spelled B-I-L-A-T-É-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \bi.la.te.ʁal\.
What does "bilatéral" mean?
As an adjective, "bilatéral" means: Qui a deux côtés symétriques.
What words are commonly confused with "bilatéral"?
"bilatéral" is commonly confused with "bilatérale", "bilatéraux", "bilatérales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bilatéral"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bilatéral" is \bi.la.te.ʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bilatéral" come from?
"bilatéral" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bilatéral", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list