brunt
/bɹʌnt/
"brunt" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brunt” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,687
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brunt · brunt · English
brunt · rank #24,687 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,687
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH breezy
Nearest frequency peer: breezy (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “brunt”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bouncer
bouncer
75,318 corpus weight
- bracing
bracing
75,317 corpus weight
- breezy
breezy
75,315 corpus weight
- brunt
brunt
75,314 corpus weight
- bucky
bucky
75,313 corpus weight
- burgeoning
burgeoning
75,312 corpus weight
What this shows “brunt” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | brunt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɹʌnt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “brunt”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around brunt (IPA /bɹʌnt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,687 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for brunt, with forms such as "bbrunt", "brnut", and "brrunt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "but", "bun", "butt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English brunt, bront (“sudden onset, attack, charge, blow”), from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”) (from Proto-Germanic *brunstiz), or bruna (“to rush”, literally “to advance like wildfire”) (see brenna). The correct English form is brunt, spelled B-R-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
- 2The force or shock of an attack in war.
- 3The major part of something; the bulk.
- 4A violent attack or charge in battle.
- 5A sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
- 6A spurt, a sudden effort or straining.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brunt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.
There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the ro…
Etymology
From Middle English brunt, bront (“sudden onset, attack, charge, blow”), from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”) (from Proto-Germanic *brunstiz), or bruna (“to rush”, literally “to advance like wildfire”) (see brenna).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrunt
- brnut
- brrunt
- brunnt
- bruntt
- brutn
- rbunt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brunt - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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