BMX
\be.ɛ.m‿iks\
The verdict
“BMX” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,851) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,851
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vélo tout-terrain, équipé de petites roues et dépourvu de dérailleur, qui est conçu pour la vitesse et l’acrobatie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bmx · BMX · French
BMX · rank #31,851 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,851
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 227,490
- PHOTO-FINISH Blais
Nearest frequency peer: Blais (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “BMX”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bike
bike
68,153 corpus weight
- bilatéraux
bilatéraux
68,152 corpus weight
- Blais
Blais
68,151 corpus weight
- BMX
BMX
68,150 corpus weight
- boat
boat
68,149 corpus weight
- bonheurs
bonheurs
68,148 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “BMX” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | BMX |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ɛ.m‿iks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “BMX” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BMX is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \be.ɛ.m‿iks\. Frequency #31,851 among 227,490 “B” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for BMX, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is BMX, spelled B-M-X.
Definition
- 1Vélo tout-terrain, équipé de petites roues et dépourvu de dérailleur, qui est conçu pour la vitesse et l’acrobatie.
- 2Sport cycliste se déroulant sur une piste en terre similaire à celle du motocross.
- 3Toute pratique sportive utilisant ce type de vélo.
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "BMX", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.