Brabant
\bʁa.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“Brabant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,120
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien duché du Saint-Empire romain germanique, correspondant à peu près à la province néerlandaise du Brabant-Septentrional et en Belgique aux provinces d’Anvers, du Brabant flamand et du Brabant ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-brabant · Brabant · French
Brabant · rank #13,120 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,120
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouc
Nearest frequency peer: bouc (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brabant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Blois
Blois
86,884 corpus weight
- body
body
86,883 corpus weight
- bouc
bouc
86,882 corpus weight
- Brabant
Brabant
86,881 corpus weight
- bracelets
bracelets
86,880 corpus weight
- brebis
brebis
86,879 corpus weight
What this shows « Brabant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Brabant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brabant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Brabant (IPA \bʁa.bɑ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,120 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Brabant, with forms such as "barbant", "bbrabant", and "braabnt". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Bryant", "brûlant", "bruyant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Brabant, spelled B-R-A-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ancien duché du Saint-Empire romain germanique, correspondant à peu près à la province néerlandaise du Brabant-Septentrional et en Belgique aux provinces d’Anvers, du Brabant flamand et du Brabant wallon et à la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.
- 2Ancienne province et région géographique à cheval sur la Flandre, Bruxelles et la Wallonie, scindée en Brabant flamand, Brabant wallon et Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Brabant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La duchesse de Marlborough exerçait la charge de grande maîtresse de la reine Anne à Londres tandis que son époux faisait dans les campagnes de Brabant une double moisson de lauriers et de richesses.
Il habite dans le Brabant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barbant
- bbrabant
- braabnt
- brabannt
- brabantt
- brabatn
- brabbant
- brabnat
- brbaant
- brrabant
- rbabant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Brabant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).