BV
The verdict
“BV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,647) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,647
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blohm & Voss, société de construction navale allemande, qui devint constructeur d’avions (surtout des hydravions) militaires en 1937.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bv · BV · French
BV · rank #40,647 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,647
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH butoir
Nearest frequency peer: butoir (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « BV »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- 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
- cabo
cabo
59,352 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « BV » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | BV |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #40,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « BV »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BV is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BX", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #40,647 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
BV doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BX", "bye", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is BV, spelled B-V.
Definition
- 1Blohm & Voss, société de construction navale allemande, qui devint constructeur d’avions (surtout des hydravions) militaires en 1937.
- 2Code ISO 3166-1 (alpha-2) de l’île Bouvet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BV appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le BV-238 fut le plus grand avion conçu, construit et piloté par l’une des forces de l’Axe.
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.