Bornéo
\bɔʁ.ne.o\
The verdict
“Bornéo” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,632
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île du Sud-Est asiatique partagée entre l’Indonésie au sud, la Malaisie orientale et le sultanat de Brunei au nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borneo · Bornéo · French
Bornéo · rank #40,632 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,632
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Borges
Nearest frequency peer: Borges (-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 « Bornéo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bonifacio
Bonifacio
59,372 corpus weight
- bordj
bordj
59,371 corpus weight
- Borges
Borges
59,370 corpus weight
- Bornéo
Bornéo
59,369 corpus weight
- botox
botox
59,368 corpus weight
- bouseux
bouseux
59,367 corpus weight
What this shows « Bornéo » 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 | Bornéo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.ne.o\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bornéo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Bornéo (IPA \bɔʁ.ne.o\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,632 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Île du Sud-Est asiatique partagée entre l’Indonésie au sud, la Malaisie orientale et le sultanat de Brunei au nord.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bornéo, with forms such as "bbornéo", "bonréo", and "borneo". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Byrne", "bornes", "bourne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Bornéo, spelled B-O-R-N-É-O.
Definition
- 1Île du Sud-Est asiatique partagée entre l’Indonésie au sud, la Malaisie orientale et le sultanat de Brunei au nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bornéo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De jade et d’or est Bornéo, d’or et de jade mon île bien-aimée Bornéo.
Les hasards de mon dernier voyage m’avaient amené à Brunei, sur la côte septentrionale de Bornéo, et tout de suite mes correspondants m’avaient signalé une affaire possible à Sandakan, de l’autre côté des Bangueys.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbornéo
- bonréo
- borneo
- bornnéo
- bornoé
- borrnéo
- boréno
- bronéo
- obrnéo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bornéo - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).