bulgare

\byl.ɡaʁ\

/\byl.ɡaʁ\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « bulgare » 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).

bulgare vs Bulgarie
75% similar
bulgare vs bulgares
88% similar

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

Key facts for bulgare
PropertyValue
Headwordbulgare
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\byl.ɡaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#16,311
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bulgare »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bulgarese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bowl » (#16,310), « Burton » (#16,312), « bouchée » (#16,309). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bulgare » est au #16,311. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Relatif aux Bulgares ou au bulgare.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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).
  2. 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.

bbulgare1blugare2buglare2bulagre2bulgaer2bulgarre1bulggare1bulgrae2
Edit distance from "bulgare"

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 "bulgare"?
"bulgare" is spelled B-U-L-G-A-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \byl.ɡaʁ\.
What does "bulgare" mean?
As an adjective, "bulgare" means: Relatif aux Bulgares ou au bulgare.
What words are commonly confused with "bulgare"?
"bulgare" is commonly confused with "Bulgarie", "bulgares". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bulgare"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bulgare" is \byl.ɡaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bulgare" come from?
"bulgare" 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 "bulgare", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list