bulgare
\byl.ɡaʁ\
The verdict
“bulgare” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,311
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Bulgares ou au bulgare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bulgare · bulgare · French
bulgare · rank #16,311 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,311
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bowl
Nearest frequency peer: bowl (-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 « bulgare »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bits
bits
83,693 corpus weight
- bouchée
bouchée
83,692 corpus weight
- bowl
bowl
83,691 corpus weight
- bulgare
bulgare
83,690 corpus weight
- Burton
Burton
83,689 corpus weight
- buteurs
buteurs
83,688 corpus weight
What this shows « bulgare » 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 | bulgare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \byl.ɡaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bulgare »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bulgare (IPA \byl.ɡaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,311 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux Bulgares ou au bulgare.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bulgare, with forms such as "bbulgare", "blugare", and "buglare". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Bulgarie", "bulgares", 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 bulgare, spelled B-U-L-G-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Bulgares ou au bulgare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bulgare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On répartit les langues slaves en trois groupes : oriental (le russe, le biélorusse, l’ukrainien), occidental (le polonais, le tchèque, le slovaque), méridional (le bulgare, le slovène, le serbo-croate et le macédonien qui est en très étroite parenté avec des parlers dialectaux bulgares, localisés dans le sud-ouest du pays).
L’Église autocéphale bulgare.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbulgare
- blugare
- buglare
- bulagre
- bulgaer
- bulgarre
- bulggare
- bulgrae
- bullgare
- ublgare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bulgare - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).