BTP
\be.te.pe\
The verdict
“BTP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,872) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,872
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Secteur économique regroupant toutes les activités de conception et de construction des bâtiments publics et privés, industriels ou non, et des infrastructures telles que les routes ou les canalisa...
Corpus desk
Index FR-btp · BTP · French
BTP · rank #14,872 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,872
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bruns
Nearest frequency peer: bruns (-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 « BTP »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- brochure
brochure
85,132 corpus weight
- brume
brume
85,131 corpus weight
- bruns
bruns
85,130 corpus weight
- BTP
BTP
85,129 corpus weight
- campement
campement
85,127 corpus weight
- capote
capote
85,126 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « BTP » 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 | BTP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.te.pe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « BTP »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BTP is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \be.te.pe\. Frequency #14,872 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Secteur économique regroupant toutes les activités de conception et de construction des bâtiments publics et privés, industriels ou non, et des infrastructures telles que les routes ou les canalisa...".
Zero misspellings are on record for BTP in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "BV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is BTP, spelled B-T-P.
Definition
- 1Secteur économique regroupant toutes les activités de conception et de construction des bâtiments publics et privés, industriels ou non, et des infrastructures telles que les routes ou les canalisations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BTP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le député estime que « ces innovations » ne doivent pas attendre la publication de mesures décrétales pour entrer en vigueur, à l’heure où la baisse des dotations aux collectivités locales ont, selon ce dernier, un « effet dévastateur » dans des secteurs tels que le BTP.
Des malfaçons, des défauts de fabrication, des travailleurs du bâtiment qui manquent de qualification… Autant de difficultés auxquelles sont exposés les Calédoniens et les professionnels du BTP.
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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