bisous
\bi.zu\
The verdict
“bisous” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,788. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,788
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bisou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bisous · bisous · French
bisous · rank #6,788 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,788
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bec
Nearest frequency peer: bec (-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 « bisous »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bague
bague
93,216 corpus weight
- barres
barres
93,215 corpus weight
- bec
bec
93,214 corpus weight
- bisous
bisous
93,213 corpus weight
- boutons
boutons
93,212 corpus weight
- bruits
bruits
93,211 corpus weight
What this shows « bisous » 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 | bisous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.zu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bisous »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bisous (IPA \bi.zu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,788 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bisou.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bisous, with forms such as "bbisous", "biosus", and "bisosu". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "bios", "bijou", "bisou", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bisous, spelled B-I-S-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bisou.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbisous
- biosus
- bisosu
- bisouss
- bissous
- bisuos
- bsious
- ibsous
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bisous - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).