bilatéraux
\bi.la.te.ʁo\
The verdict
“bilatéraux” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,849. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,849
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de bilatéral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bilateraux · bilatéraux · French
bilatéraux · rank #31,849 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,849
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 227,490
- PHOTO-FINISH bike
Nearest frequency peer: bike (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bilatéraux”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bibliothéca…
bibliothécaires
68,154 corpus weight
- bike
bike
68,153 corpus weight
- bilatéraux
bilatéraux
68,152 corpus weight
- Blais
Blais
68,151 corpus weight
- BMX
BMX
68,150 corpus weight
- boat
boat
68,149 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bilatéraux” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | bilatéraux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.la.te.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bilatéraux” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around bilatéraux (IPA \bi.la.te.ʁo\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,849 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de bilatéral.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for bilatéraux, with forms such as "bbilatéraux", "bialtéraux", and "bilateraux". 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, "bilatéral", "bilatérale", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bilatéraux, spelled B-I-L-A-T-É-R-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de bilatéral.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbilatéraux
- bialtéraux
- bilateraux
- bilatréaux
- bilattéraux
- bilatéarux
- bilatérauxx
- bilatéraxu
- bilatérraux
- bilatéruax
- bilaétraux
- billatéraux
- biltaéraux
- bliatéraux
- iblatéraux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bilatéraux - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bilatéraux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.