biographies

/\bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,779

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

biographies is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de biographie. Pronounced \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Often confused with biographiques and biographe.

Key facts for biographies
PropertyValue
Headwordbiographies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
Letters11
Frequency rank#23,779
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for biographies is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,779 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de biographie.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for biographies, with forms such as "bbiographies", "bigoraphies", and "biogarphies". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "biographiques", "biographe", "biographie", 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 biographies, spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de biographie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbiographies,bigoraphies,biogarphies,bioggraphies,biograhpies,biographeis,biographhies,biographiess,biographise,biograpihes,biograpphies,biogrpahies,biogrraphies,biorgaphies,boigraphies,ibographies

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for biographies

Misspelling Variants of "biographies"

bbiographies12bigoraphies11biogarphies11bioggraphies12biograhpies11biographeis11biographhies12biographiess12
Misspelling Variants of "biographies"

Frequency rank: #23,779 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "biographies"?
"biographies" is spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\.
What does "biographies" mean?
As a noun, "biographies" means: Pluriel de biographie.
What words are commonly confused with "biographies"?
"biographies" is commonly confused with "biographiques", "biographe", "biographie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "biographies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "biographies" is \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "biographies" come from?
"biographies" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.