budget

\byd.ʒɛ\

/\byd.ʒɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“budget” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,319. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,319
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prévision de dépenses et de recettes d’une administration pour une période donnée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-budget · budget · French

budget · rank #1,319 · 9 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,319
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bonheur

Nearest frequency peer: bonheur (-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 « budget »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « budget » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

budget vs Bugey
50% similar
budget vs burger
67% similar
budget vs buffet
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for budget
PropertyValue
Headwordbudget
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\byd.ʒɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,319
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « budget »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.budgetse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bonheur » (#1,318), « caractère » (#1,320), « avocat » (#1,317). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « budget » est au #1,319. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around budget (IPA \byd.ʒɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,319 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for budget, with forms such as "bbudget", "bduget", and "buddget". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Bugey", "burger", "buffet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is budget, spelled B-U-D-G-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prévision de dépenses et de recettes d’une administration pour une période donnée.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des prévisions des dépenses et recettes publiques de l’État ou d’une collectivité territoriale.
  3. 3
    Affectation de ressources financières.
  4. 4
    Prévision de revenus et dépenses d’une entreprise, d’une société, d’un particulier, d’une famille.
  5. 5
    Somme d’argent allouée pour une certaine dépense, ou pour une certaine catégorie de dépenses.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how budget appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le budget d’un prince allemand n’aurait pas payé cette richesse insolente.
  2. Le budget alloué à la CIIVISE pour les deux années initialement prévues était de 4 millions d’euros. La commission n’ayant pas été dotée de la personnalité morale ni instituée par un texte réglementaire, chaque dépense impliquée par une action de la commission a été validée et réalisée par les ministères sociaux, la direction générale de la cohésion socia…

Synonyms

devisprévisionnel

This word in other languages

budget(English)presupuesto(Español)Etat(Deutsch)orçamento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbudget
  • bduget
  • buddget
  • budegt
  • budgett
  • budgget
  • budgte
  • bugdet
  • ubdget

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of budget - 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.

bbudget1bduget2buddget1budegt2budgett1budgget1budgte2bugdet2
Edit distance from "budget"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "budget"?
"budget" is spelled B-U-D-G-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \byd.ʒɛ\.
What does "budget" mean?
As a noun, "budget" means: Prévision de dépenses et de recettes d’une administration pour une période donnée.
What words are commonly confused with "budget"?
"budget" is commonly confused with "Bugey", "burger", "buffet". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "budget"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "budget" is \byd.ʒɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "budget" come from?
"budget" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "budget", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

avocat#1,317appris#1,315dedans#1,327écoles#1,308

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

connaît9 variantsvendre9 variantsprince9 variantstableau9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list