bobsleigh
\bɔb.slɛɡ\
The verdict
“bobsleigh” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,184
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traîneau articulé à plusieurs places, qui peut glisser très vite sur des pistes de glace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bobsleigh · bobsleigh · French
bobsleigh · rank #39,184 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,184
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouin
Nearest frequency peer: bouin (+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 « bobsleigh »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- binet
binet
60,820 corpus weight
- Blandine
Blandine
60,819 corpus weight
- bobsleigh
bobsleigh
60,817 corpus weight
- bouin
bouin
60,816 corpus weight
- bousiller
bousiller
60,815 corpus weight
- bouées
bouées
60,814 corpus weight
What this shows « bobsleigh » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bobsleigh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔb.slɛɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bobsleigh »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around bobsleigh (IPA \bɔb.slɛɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,184 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bobsleigh, with forms such as "bbobsleigh", "bbosleigh", and "bobbsleigh". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bobsleigh, spelled B-O-B-S-L-E-I-G-H.
Definition
- 1Traîneau articulé à plusieurs places, qui peut glisser très vite sur des pistes de glace.
- 2Discipline sportive utilisant ce matériel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbobsleigh
- bbosleigh
- bobbsleigh
- boblseigh
- bobseligh
- bobslegih
- bobsleiggh
- bobsleighh
- bobsleihg
- bobsliegh
- bobslleigh
- bobssleigh
- bosbleigh
- obbsleigh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bobsleigh - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).