BTS
\be.te.ɛs\
The verdict
“BTS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,283) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,283
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de diplôme bac + 2.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bts · BTS · French
BTS · rank #10,283 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,283
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouillon
Nearest frequency peer: bouillon (-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 « BTS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- blaise
blaise
89,721 corpus weight
- bougies
bougies
89,720 corpus weight
- bouillon
bouillon
89,719 corpus weight
- BTS
BTS
89,718 corpus weight
- bâtard
bâtard
89,717 corpus weight
- bénéfique
bénéfique
89,716 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « BTS » 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 | BTS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.te.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « BTS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BTS is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \be.te.ɛs\. Frequency #10,283 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Type de diplôme bac + 2.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for BTS, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "BV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is BTS, spelled B-T-S.
Definition
- 1Type de diplôme bac + 2.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BTS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les écoles, des professeurs enseignants pour des classes de BTS, DUT, DEUG, classes préparatoires, etc., sont spécialisés dans l’apprentissage des notions fondamentales de programmation. — (Franck Ebel, Sébastien Rohaut, Algorithmique : Techniques fondamentales de programmation – Exemples en Python, Saint Herblain, Éditions ENI, février 2018, collect…
Nicolas Meffre, titulaire d’un BTS (Brevet de technicien supérieur), spécialisé dans le fonctionnement des plantes, en est l’animateur.
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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