bingo

/\biŋ.ɡo\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,076

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

bingo is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeu de société de chance, où les joueurs doivent remplir une grille de nombre, puis gagnent s’ils sont tirés au sort. Pronounced \biŋ.ɡo\. Often confused with bio and bono.

Key facts for bingo
PropertyValue
Headwordbingo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\biŋ.ɡo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#16,076
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bingo in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bingo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \biŋ.ɡo\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,076 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bingo, with forms such as "bbingo", "bigno", and "binggo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "bio", "bono", "bong", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bingo, spelled B-I-N-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Jeu de société de chance, où les joueurs doivent remplir une grille de nombre, puis gagnent s’ils sont tirés au sort.
  2. 2
    Victoire au jeu bingo.
  3. 3
    Fait de placer toutes ses sept lettres d’un coup.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbingo,bigno,binggo,binngo,binog,bnigo,ibngo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bingo

Misspelling Variants of "bingo"

bbingo6bigno5binggo6binngo6binog5bnigo5ibngo5
Misspelling Variants of "bingo"

Frequency rank: #16,076 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bingo"?
"bingo" is spelled B-I-N-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is \biŋ.ɡo\.
What does "bingo" mean?
As a noun, "bingo" means: Jeu de société de chance, où les joueurs doivent remplir une grille de nombre, puis gagnent s’ils sont tirés au sort.
What words are commonly confused with "bingo"?
"bingo" is commonly confused with "bio", "bono", "bong". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bingo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bingo" is \biŋ.ɡo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bingo" come from?
"bingo" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.