bottin
\bɔ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“bottin” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,908
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Annuaire des professionnels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bottin · bottin · French
bottin · rank #44,908 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,908
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH botanistes
Nearest frequency peer: botanistes (-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 « bottin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bookmakers
bookmakers
55,097 corpus weight
- bosniaque
bosniaque
55,095 corpus weight
- botanistes
botanistes
55,094 corpus weight
- bottin
bottin
55,093 corpus weight
- bourrin
bourrin
55,092 corpus weight
- Braine
Braine
55,091 corpus weight
What this shows « bottin » 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 | bottin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bottin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bottin (IPA \bɔ.tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,908 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bottin, with forms such as "bbottin", "botin", and "botitn". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "butin", "bovin", "bouin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bottin, spelled B-O-T-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Annuaire des professionnels.
- 2Autres publications de "Bottin-Didot".
- 3Annuaire téléphonique (par confusion avec le véritable bottin des professions).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bottin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Maurice Borderel, tel est le nom de ce personnage, figure au Bottin sous la dénomination d'agriculteur-éleveur. Il habite le château de la Sault et est l'ancien maire de la commune de Balaives-et-Butz, dans les Ardennes.
Je vais chercher son numéro dans le bottin.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbottin
- botin
- botitn
- bottinn
- bottni
- btotin
- obttin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bottin - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).