biographie
\bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“biographie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,343
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récit de la vie d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biographie · biographie · French
biographie · rank #8,343 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,343
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH battus
Nearest frequency peer: battus (-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 « biographie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- batailles
batailles
91,661 corpus weight
- battue
battue
91,660 corpus weight
- battus
battus
91,659 corpus weight
- biographie
biographie
91,658 corpus weight
- bizarrement
bizarrement
91,657 corpus weight
- bonbons
bonbons
91,655 corpus weight
What this shows « biographie » 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 | biographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « biographie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around biographie (IPA \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,343 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for biographie, with forms such as "bbiographie", "bigoraphie", and "biogarphie". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "biographies", "biographique", "biographe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is biographie, spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Récit de la vie d’une personne.
- 2Science des écrits relatifs à ce genre d’ouvrages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la bibliothèque se côtoyaient Henry James en Penguin, Le Prince des marées dédicacé par Pat Conroy, une biographie de Sylvia Plath, tous les romains d’Iris Murdoch.
Puis, l’on ne peut étudier maintenant la biographie de celle-là que dans l’in-octavo d’un anonyme dont les chapitres incohérents, […], interdiront à jamais de la connaître.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbiographie
- bigoraphie
- biogarphie
- bioggraphie
- biograhpie
- biographei
- biographhie
- biograpihe
- biograpphie
- biogrpahie
- biogrraphie
- biorgaphie
- boigraphie
- ibographie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of biographie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "biographie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).