brisant
[bʁiˈzant]
The verdict
“brisant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,493
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit großem Zertrümmerungsvermögen
Corpus desk
Index DE-brisant · brisant · German
brisant · rank #33,493 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,493
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Brautpaar
Nearest frequency peer: Brautpaar (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „brisant“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Borsten
Borsten
66,512 corpus weight
- boutique
boutique
66,511 corpus weight
- brauchbaren
brauchbaren
66,510 corpus weight
- Brautpaar
Brautpaar
66,509 corpus weight
- brisant
brisant
66,508 corpus weight
- Brooke
Brooke
66,507 corpus weight
What this shows „brisant“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | brisant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bʁiˈzant] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „brisant“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around brisant (IPA [bʁiˈzant]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,493 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brisant, with forms such as "bbrisant", "birsant", and "briasnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Brisanz", "Brisbane", "brisante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is brisant, spelled B-R-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1mit großem Zertrümmerungsvermögen
- 2so, dass es leicht zu einem Konflikt oder Skandal führt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Brisante Sprengstoffe detonieren mit sehr hoher Geschwindigkeit.
Brisant ist, dass Joschka Fischer derzeit politisch unter Druck steht, da es bei der Vergabe von Einreisevisa in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, insbesondere aus der Ukraine, starke Unregelmäßigkeiten gab.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrisant
- birsant
- briasnt
- brisannt
- brisantt
- brisatn
- brisnat
- brissant
- brrisant
- brsiant
- rbisant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brisant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brisant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).