burning
\ˈbɜː(ɹ)nd\
The verdict
“burning” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,645. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,645
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe to burn.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burning · burning · French
burning · rank #40,645 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,645
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bund
Nearest frequency peer: Bund (-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 « burning »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bucket
bucket
59,359 corpus weight
- Bund
Bund
59,357 corpus weight
- burning
burning
59,356 corpus weight
- butoir
butoir
59,355 corpus weight
- BV
BV
59,354 corpus weight
- béarnais
béarnais
59,353 corpus weight
What this shows « burning » 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 | burning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbɜː(ɹ)nd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « burning »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around burning (IPA \ˈbɜː(ɹ)nd\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,645 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe to burn.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for burning, with forms such as "bburning", "bruning", and "bunring". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bring", "burin", "Burkina", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is burning, spelled B-U-R-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe to burn.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bburning
- bruning
- bunring
- burinng
- burnign
- burningg
- burninng
- burnnig
- burnning
- burrning
- ubrning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of burning - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "burning", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).