biographique

\bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\

/\bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\/ adj

The verdict

“biographique” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,180
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est relatif à la biographie ou à la vie d’une personne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-biographique · biographique · French

biographique · rank #22,180 · 17 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,180
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bilingues

Nearest frequency peer: bilingues (-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 « biographique »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « biographique » 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).

biographique vs biographiques
92% similar
biographique vs biographie
83% similar

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

Key facts for biographique
PropertyValue
Headwordbiographique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\
Letters12
Frequency rank#22,180
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « biographique »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bilingues » (#22,179), « blouson » (#22,181), « Becker » (#22,178). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « biographique » est au #22,180. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around biographique (IPA \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,180 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est relatif à la biographie ou à la vie d’une personne.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for biographique, with forms such as "bbiographique", "bigoraphique", and "biogarphique". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "biographiques", "biographie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is biographique, spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est relatif à la biographie ou à la vie d’une personne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Très probablement, il [William Blake] aurait négligé les futilités biographiques que d’ordinaire on note avec tant de soin : la date de naissance et les maisons qu’il habita.
  2. Freud fut ainsi conduit à formuler le concept de fantasme, concept qui ancrait ces récits dans leur réalité psychique et non pas dans une hypothétique réalité biographique. — (Lionel Naccache, Le Nouvel Inconscient : Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences, Odile Jacob, 2009, page 411)

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbiographique
  • bigoraphique
  • biogarphique
  • bioggraphique
  • biograhpique
  • biographhique
  • biographiqeu
  • biographiqque
  • biographiuqe
  • biographqiue
  • biograpihque
  • biograpphique
  • biogrpahique
  • biogrraphique
  • biorgaphique
  • boigraphique
  • ibographique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

bbiographique1bigoraphique2biogarphique2bioggraphique1biograhpique2biographhique1biographiqeu2biographiqque1
Edit distance from "biographique"

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 "biographique"?
"biographique" is spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\.
What does "biographique" mean?
As an adjective, "biographique" means: Qui est relatif à la biographie ou à la vie d’une personne.
What words are commonly confused with "biographique"?
"biographique" is commonly confused with "biographiques", "biographie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "biographique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "biographique" is \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "biographique" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list