billion
\bi.ljɔ̃\
The verdict
“billion” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,189
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un million de millions, ou mille milliards, selon l’échelle longue. 10¹², c’est-à-dire 1,000,000,000,000.
Corpus desk
Index FR-billion · billion · French
billion · rank #47,189 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,189
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beveren
Nearest frequency peer: Beveren (-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 « billion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- below
below
52,815 corpus weight
- berre
berre
52,814 corpus weight
- Beveren
Beveren
52,813 corpus weight
- billion
billion
52,812 corpus weight
- Boisvert
Boisvert
52,811 corpus weight
- boson
boson
52,810 corpus weight
What this shows « billion » 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 | billion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ljɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « billion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around billion (IPA \bi.ljɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,189 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for billion, with forms such as "bbillion", "bililon", and "bilion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "billon", "ballon", "Billie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is billion, spelled B-I-L-L-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Un million de millions, ou mille milliards, selon l’échelle longue. 10¹², c’est-à-dire 1,000,000,000,000.
- 2Milliard. Cet usage, qui suit l’échelle courte, est aujourd’hui très rare en français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how billion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tera ^([sic : Téra]) : préfixe qui, placé devant une unité de mesure, la multiplie par un billion, c’est-à-dire par un million de millions ou mille milliards.
Billions (douze zéros), trillions (18 zéros), trilliards (21 zéros), quatrillions’(24 zéros).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbillion
- bililon
- bilion
- billino
- billionn
- billoin
- blilion
- ibllion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of billion - 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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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).