BildvsbillsWhich spelling fits?

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“Bild” and “bills” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#37,199
“Bild” frequency rank
#38,677
“bills” frequency rank
75876
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Bild bills
Definition Image. Pluriel de bill.

Where the eye mixes Bild and bills

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. Bild runs 4 letters (CVCC) against bills's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Bild
5 ch
bills

Look-alike desk: Bild vs bills

A purely visual mix-up. Bild (\bɪlt\) and bills (\bil\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75876, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Bild is recorded at frequency rank #37,199, classified as anoun, pronounced \bɪlt\. bills is at rank #38,677, tagged as anoun, pronounced \bil\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 75876, this pair ranks #32,764 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Bild vs bills

Shared letters: bil. Private to "Bild": d. Private to "bills": s.

"Bild" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "bills" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Bild ← bbild · bidl · bildd · billd · blid · ibld
  • bills ← bbills · billss · bils · bilsl · blils · iblls

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Bild" for "bills" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\bɪlt\ versus \bil\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "Bild" vs "bills" - which ranks higher?
"Bild" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,199 in our French list, against #38,677 for "bills". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "Bild" and "bills" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Bild" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "bills" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #32,764 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Bild" and "bills" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Bild vs bold". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #32,764 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list