bishop
\bi.ʃɔp\
The verdict
“bishop” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,219. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,219
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de bischof. Boisson chaude ou froide, obtenue en faisant macérer, avec ou sans épices, dans du vin sucré, du citron ou de l’orange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bishop · bishop · French
bishop · rank #19,219 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,219
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bijouterie
Nearest frequency peer: bijouterie (-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 « bishop »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Benfica
Benfica
80,785 corpus weight
- bide
bide
80,784 corpus weight
- bijouterie
bijouterie
80,783 corpus weight
- bishop
bishop
80,782 corpus weight
- boussole
boussole
80,780 corpus weight
- Brazzaville
Brazzaville
80,779 corpus weight
What this shows « bishop » 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 | bishop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ʃɔp\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bishop »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bishop (IPA \bi.ʃɔp\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,219 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de bischof. Boisson chaude ou froide, obtenue en faisant macérer, avec ou sans épices, dans du vin sucré, du citron ou de l’orange.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bishop, with forms such as "bbishop", "bihsop", and "bishhop". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bisou", "bison", "bisson", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bishop, spelled B-I-S-H-O-P.
Definition
- 1Variante de bischof. Boisson chaude ou froide, obtenue en faisant macérer, avec ou sans épices, dans du vin sucré, du citron ou de l’orange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bishop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À dix heures et demie, heure indue pour le square, entra un petit plateau de sandwiches avec un bol de bishop, qui, venant couronner l’effet du vieux tokay et des autres spiritueux...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbishop
- bihsop
- bishhop
- bishopp
- bishpo
- bisohp
- bisshop
- bsihop
- ibshop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bishop - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bishop", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).