bimbo
\bim.bo\
The verdict
“bimbo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,687
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune femme superficielle qui prend exagérément soin de son apparence et sait jouer de ses charmes ; ravissante idiote, gourde sexy.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bimbo · bimbo · French
bimbo · rank #37,687 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,687
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biliaire
Nearest frequency peer: biliaire (-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 « bimbo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Beauvau
Beauvau
62,317 corpus weight
- belgo
belgo
62,316 corpus weight
- biliaire
biliaire
62,315 corpus weight
- bimbo
bimbo
62,314 corpus weight
- bioéthique
bioéthique
62,313 corpus weight
- bir
bir
62,312 corpus weight
What this shows « bimbo » 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 | bimbo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bim.bo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bimbo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bimbo (IPA \bim.bo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,687 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jeune femme superficielle qui prend exagérément soin de son apparence et sait jouer de ses charmes ; ravissante idiote, gourde sexy.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bimbo, with forms such as "bbimbo", "bibmo", and "bimbbo". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "bio", "bobo", "bomb", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bimbo, spelled B-I-M-B-O.
Definition
- 1Jeune femme superficielle qui prend exagérément soin de son apparence et sait jouer de ses charmes ; ravissante idiote, gourde sexy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bimbo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pourra noter que de nos jours le stéréotype de la bimbo a des mensurations parfois démesurées.
Dieu merci, ce n’est pas une bimbo sans cervelle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbimbo
- bibmo
- bimbbo
- bimmbo
- bimob
- bmibo
- ibmbo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bimbo - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).