biologiste

\bjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\

/\bjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\/ noun

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The verdict

“biologiste” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,061. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,061
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui étudie la biologie, c’est-à-dire les organismes vivants ainsi que leurs constituants et leurs interactions avec leur environnement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-biologiste · biologiste · French

biologiste · rank #20,061 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,061
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH biennale

Nearest frequency peer: biennale (-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 « biologiste »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « biologiste » 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).

biologiste vs biologistes
91% similar
biologiste vs Biologie
70% similar
biologiste vs biologique
80% similar

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

Key facts for biologiste
PropertyValue
Headwordbiologiste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,061
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « biologiste »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).biologistese 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 « biennale » (#20,060), « blanchard » (#20,062), « bienfaisance » (#20,059). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « biologiste » est au #20,061. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around biologiste (IPA \bjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,061 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 biologiste, with forms such as "bbiologiste", "biloogiste", and "biolgoiste". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "biologistes", "Biologie", "biologique", 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 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 biologiste, spelled B-I-O-L-O-G-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui étudie la biologie, c’est-à-dire les organismes vivants ainsi que leurs constituants et leurs interactions avec leur environnement.
  2. 2
    Personne qui utilise la biologie dans une branche particulière (voir les Dérivés ci-dessous).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Aucun biologiste ni éthologue, qu’il soit évolutionniste ou non, n’établit de différence fondamentale entre les lois biologiques régissant le monde animal et celles régissant l’espèce humaine.
  2. « Endormir un cerf pour le relocaliser est une épreuve très stressante pour l’animal. Dans plus de 50 % des cas de déplacement, il meurt dans les heures ou les jours suivants son réveil », explique Anaïs Gasse, biologiste au ministère de la Faune.

Synonyms

biologue

This word in other languages

biologist(English)biólogo(Español)Biologe(Deutsch)biologista(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbiologiste
  • biloogiste
  • biolgoiste
  • biollogiste
  • biologgiste
  • biologiset
  • biologisste
  • biologistte
  • biologitse
  • biologsite
  • bioloigste
  • bioolgiste
  • boilogiste
  • ibologiste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of biologiste - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bbiologiste1biloogiste2biolgoiste2biollogiste1biologgiste1biologiset2biologisste1biologistte1
Edit distance from "biologiste"

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 "biologiste"?
"biologiste" is spelled B-I-O-L-O-G-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\.
What does "biologiste" mean?
As a noun, "biologiste" means: Personne qui étudie la biologie, c’est-à-dire les organismes vivants ainsi que leurs constituants et leurs interactions avec leur environnement.
What words are commonly confused with "biologiste"?
"biologiste" is commonly confused with "biologistes", "Biologie", "biologique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "biologiste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "biologiste" is \bjɔ.lɔ.ʒist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "biologiste" come from?
"biologiste" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bouddhiste#20,064ascenseurs#20,048agrégation#20,040chercheuse#20,084

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

assignation14 variantscalculées14 variantsabrogation14 variantsabominable14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list