bio

adj

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“bio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,984) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#2,984
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui provient de l’agriculture biologique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bio · bio · French

bio · rank #2,984 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,984
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH ballon

Nearest frequency peer: ballon (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bio »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « bio » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

bio vs by
33% similar
bio vs bu
33% similar
bio vs Br
0% similar

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

Key facts for bio
PropertyValue
Headwordbio
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters3
Frequency rank#2,984
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bio »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ballon » (#2,983), « branche » (#2,985), « artistique » (#2,982). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bio » est au #2,984. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for bio is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #2,984 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Zero misspellings are on record for bio in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bio, spelled B-I-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui provient de l’agriculture biologique.
  2. 2
    Qui vend de tels produits.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les yaourts se font de préférence avec du lait de vache entier ou bio.
  2. À Loire-les-Marais, Frédéric Moinier fabrique des jonchées bio au lait thermisé et sur des joncs en synthétique, qu’il vend dans les épiceries et supérettes locales.

Antonyms

conventionnel

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 "bio"?
"bio" is spelled B-I-O.
What does "bio" mean?
As an adjective, "bio" means: Qui provient de l’agriculture biologique.
What words are commonly confused with "bio"?
"bio" is commonly confused with "by", "bu", "Br". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "bio" come from?
"bio" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tir#2,969lot#3,017pur#3,034ira#2,932

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list