Bugey
\by.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“Bugey” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,684. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,684
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région française du Jura méridional entre Lyon et Genève, rattachée à la France par le traité de Lyon (1601) en même temps que la Bresse et le Pays de Gex, aujourd’hui dans le département de l’Ain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bugey · Bugey · French
Bugey · rank #38,684 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,684
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bryce
Nearest frequency peer: Bryce (-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 « Bugey »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brando
brando
61,320 corpus weight
- brazil
brazil
61,319 corpus weight
- Bryce
Bryce
61,318 corpus weight
- Bugey
Bugey
61,317 corpus weight
- bénéficiaie…
bénéficiaient
61,316 corpus weight
- Cagliari
Cagliari
61,314 corpus weight
What this shows « Bugey » 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 | Bugey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \by.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bugey »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Bugey (IPA \by.ʒɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,684 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Région française du Jura méridional entre Lyon et Genève, rattachée à la France par le traité de Lyon (1601) en même temps que la Bresse et le Pays de Gex, aujourd’hui dans le département de l’Ain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bugey, with forms such as "bbugey", "bguey", and "buegy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "buy", "bute", "bugs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Bugey, spelled B-U-G-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Région française du Jura méridional entre Lyon et Genève, rattachée à la France par le traité de Lyon (1601) en même temps que la Bresse et le Pays de Gex, aujourd’hui dans le département de l’Ain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bugey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin naît en 1755 au cœur du Bugey à l’extrémité sud du Jura, dont il chantera les paysages, les traditions et, d’abord, la cuisine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbugey
- bguey
- buegy
- bugeyy
- buggey
- bugye
- ubgey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bugey - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).