Birmingham
The verdict
“Birmingham” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,493
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - District métropolitain, ville et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté des Midlands de l’Ouest.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Birmingham |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Birmingham” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Birmingham, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,493 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Birmingham, with forms such as "bbirmingham", "bimringham", and "birimngham". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Birmingham, spelled B-I-R-M-I-N-G-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1District métropolitain, ville et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté des Midlands de l’Ouest.
- 2Ville de l’État de l'Alabama, aux États-Unis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbirmingham
- bimringham
- birimngham
- birmignham
- birmingahm
- birminggham
- birminghamm
- birminghham
- birminghma
- birminhgam
- birminngham
- birmmingham
- birmnigham
- birrmingham
- brimingham
- ibrmingham
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Birmingham - 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.
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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Using “Birmingham”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-R-M-I-N-G-H-A-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.