biographe

\bjɔ.ɡʁaf\

/\bjɔ.ɡʁaf\/ noun

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The verdict

“biographe” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,247
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a écrit une ou plusieurs biographies.

Corpus desk

Index FR-biographe · biographe · French

biographe · rank #29,247 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,247
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Beauchamp

Nearest frequency peer: Beauchamp (-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 « biographe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « biographe » 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).

biographe vs biographie
90% similar
biographe vs biographes
90% similar
biographe vs biographies
82% similar

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

Key facts for biographe
PropertyValue
Headwordbiographe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bjɔ.ɡʁaf\
Letters9
Frequency rank#29,247
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « biographe »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.biographese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Beauchamp » (#29,246), « blanco » (#29,248), « Baxter » (#29,245). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « biographe » est au #29,247. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around biographe (IPA \bjɔ.ɡʁaf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,247 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui a écrit une ou plusieurs biographies.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for biographe, with forms such as "bbiographe", "bigoraphe", and "biogarphe". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "biographie", "biographes", "biographies", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is biographe, spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui a écrit une ou plusieurs biographies.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Quelle fut, au juste, la sentence rendue par l'Official ? Les biographes nous racontent qu'il n'y en eut pas, […].
  2. Il n'est pas prudent, je le sais, de désavouer des biographes bien disposés en votre faveur, et qui peuvent vous menacer d'une édition revue et corrigée ; mais je n'ai jamais été prudente en quoi que ce soit.

This word in other languages

biographer(English)biógrafo(Español)Biograf(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbiographe
  • bigoraphe
  • biogarphe
  • bioggraphe
  • biograhpe
  • biograpeh
  • biographhe
  • biograpphe
  • biogrpahe
  • biogrraphe
  • biorgaphe
  • boigraphe
  • ibographe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of biographe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

bbiographe1bigoraphe2biogarphe2bioggraphe1biograhpe2biograpeh2biographhe1biograpphe1
Edit distance from "biographe"

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 "biographe"?
"biographe" is spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bjɔ.ɡʁaf\.
What does "biographe" mean?
As a noun, "biographe" means: Personne qui a écrit une ou plusieurs biographies.
What words are commonly confused with "biographe"?
"biographe" is commonly confused with "biographie", "biographes", "biographies". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "biographe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "biographe" is \bjɔ.ɡʁaf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "biographe" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Beauchamp#29,246bagatelle#29,239astucieux#29,231astreinte#29,230

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

arrêtaient13 variantscamoufler13 variantsargumente13 variantsappréciera13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list