bistro
\bis.tʁo\
The verdict
“bistro” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,464
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit café ou restaurant sans prétention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bistro · bistro · French
bistro · rank #28,464 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,464
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bibliographiq…
Nearest frequency peer: bibliographique (-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 « bistro »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- betteraves
betteraves
71,540 corpus weight
- bg
bg
71,539 corpus weight
- bibliograph…
bibliographique
71,538 corpus weight
- bistro
bistro
71,537 corpus weight
- blah
blah
71,536 corpus weight
- Brahim
Brahim
71,535 corpus weight
What this shows « bistro » 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 | bistro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bis.tʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bistro »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bistro (IPA \bis.tʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,464 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bistro, with forms such as "bbistro", "bisrto", and "bisstro". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bistrot", "bistrots", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bistro, spelled B-I-S-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1Petit café ou restaurant sans prétention.
- 2Tenancier de cet établissement (métonymie, ici synonyme de bistrotier).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bistro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme tout bistro qui se respecte, celui-ci réservait aux habitués une arrière-salle et deux étages de chambres meublées […].
On traverse la place de la gare pour aller au bistro d’en face. Il neige dur. La place est toute blanche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbistro
- bisrto
- bisstro
- bistor
- bistrro
- bisttro
- bitsro
- bsitro
- ibstro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bistro - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bistro", 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).