biz
\biz\
The verdict
“biz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,224) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,224
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de business.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biz · biz · French
biz · rank #25,224 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,224
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH binaires
Nearest frequency peer: binaires (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « biz »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Belgium
Belgium
74,781 corpus weight
- Bellevue
Bellevue
74,780 corpus weight
- binaires
binaires
74,778 corpus weight
- biz
biz
74,777 corpus weight
- blogueur
blogueur
74,776 corpus weight
- boiteux
boiteux
74,775 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « biz » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | biz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \biz\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « biz »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for biz is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \biz\. Frequency #25,224 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de business.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for biz in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is biz, spelled B-I-Z.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de business.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how biz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fils de pute faisait du biz pour de vrai, avec des mecs de Bobigny, il vivait en région parisienne et n’était plus venu à Heillange depuis trois ans facile.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).