bilingue

\bi.lɛ̃ɡ\

/\bi.lɛ̃ɡ\/ adj

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The verdict

“bilingue” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,644. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,644
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en deux langues.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bilingue · bilingue · French

bilingue · rank #10,644 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #10,644
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bouchons

Nearest frequency peer: bouchons (+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 « bilingue »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « bilingue » 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).

bilingue vs bilingues
89% similar

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

Key facts for bilingue
PropertyValue
Headwordbilingue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\bi.lɛ̃ɡ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,644
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bilingue »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bouchons » (#10,645), « balader » (#10,642), « boulanger » (#10,646). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bilingue » est au #10,644. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around bilingue (IPA \bi.lɛ̃ɡ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,644 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bilingue, with forms such as "bbilingue", "biilngue", and "bilignue". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bilingues", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bilingue, spelled B-I-L-I-N-G-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est en deux langues.
  2. 2
    Où l’on parle deux langues.
  3. 3
    Où l'on enseigne en deux langues.
  4. 4
    Qui connaît deux langues (y compris sa langue maternelle).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’écriture hiéroglyphique hittite fit l'objet de longues tentatives de déchiffrement de Pietro Merigi (1927,1937), Ignace Gelb, Émile Forrer et Théodore Bossert, qui eut la chance de trouver à Karatepe, en 1947, une stèle bilingue phénicien/hittite.
  2. En effet, la Constitution elle-même stipule que le Canada est un pays bilingue. […] Il est donc hautement contradictoire que le texte fondateur du pays soit unilingue dans un pays qui se dit et qui se veut bilingue, car la langue est très intrinsèquement liée à la culture et à l’histoire d’un peuple, ainsi qu’à son sentiment d’appartenance.

This word in other languages

bilingual(English)bilingüe(Español)zweisprachig(Deutsch)bilingue(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbilingue
  • biilngue
  • bilignue
  • bilingeu
  • bilinggue
  • bilinngue
  • bilinuge
  • billingue
  • bilnigue
  • bliingue
  • iblingue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bilingue - 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.

bbilingue1biilngue2bilignue2bilingeu2bilinggue1bilinngue1bilinuge2billingue1
Edit distance from "bilingue"

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 "bilingue"?
"bilingue" is spelled B-I-L-I-N-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bi.lɛ̃ɡ\.
What does "bilingue" mean?
As an adjective, "bilingue" means: Qui est en deux langues.
What words are commonly confused with "bilingue"?
"bilingue" is commonly confused with "bilingues". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bilingue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bilingue" is \bi.lɛ̃ɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bilingue" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bouchons#10,645Bulgarie#10,649colonial#10,663communal#10,665

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

cancers11 variantsénerver11 variantsconsommé11 variantswestern11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list