bye
\baj\
The verdict
“bye” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,376) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,376
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au revoir, salut, à plus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bye · bye · French
bye · rank #6,376 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,376
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brest
Nearest frequency peer: Brest (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bye”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Avignon
Avignon
93,628 corpus weight
- bombes
bombes
93,627 corpus weight
- Brest
Brest
93,626 corpus weight
- bye
bye
93,625 corpus weight
- causer
causer
93,624 corpus weight
- championne
championne
93,623 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bye” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | bye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \baj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “bye” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bye is neighbouring look-alikes ("Byrne", "B", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \baj\. Frequency #6,376 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Au revoir, salut, à plus.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bye, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Byrne", "B", "by", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bye, spelled B-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Au revoir, salut, à plus.
This word in other languages
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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- "bye" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Byrne". View pair
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.