bisou
\bi.zu\
The verdict
“bisou” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,209
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contact effectué avec les lèvres en signe d’amour ou d’affection sur la joue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bisou · bisou · French
bisou · rank #14,209 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,209
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bienvenus
Nearest frequency peer: bienvenus (-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 « bisou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Balzac
Balzac
85,795 corpus weight
- Benzema
Benzema
85,794 corpus weight
- bienvenus
bienvenus
85,793 corpus weight
- bisou
bisou
85,792 corpus weight
- bled
bled
85,791 corpus weight
- boucler
boucler
85,790 corpus weight
What this shows « bisou » 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 | bisou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.zu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bisou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bisou (IPA \bi.zu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,209 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bisou, with forms such as "bbisou", "biosu", and "bissou". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bou", "brou", "bossu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bisou, spelled B-I-S-O-U.
Definition
- 1Contact effectué avec les lèvres en signe d’amour ou d’affection sur la joue.
- 2Salutation affectueuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bisou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour l'apprivoiser, je lui plaque des baisers (un cucudet écrirait "des bisous") dans le cou.
Dominique Anglade lui fait de beaux yeux ! Mélanie Joly lui envoie des bisous ! Erin O’Toole veut être son ami !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbisou
- biosu
- bissou
- bisuo
- bsiou
- ibsou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bisou - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).