Braga
\bʁa.ɡa\
The verdict
“Braga” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,679
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, municipalité et district du Portugal situé dans le Cávado.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braga · Braga · French
Braga · rank #39,679 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,679
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boursières
Nearest frequency peer: boursières (-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 « Braga »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Borel
Borel
60,325 corpus weight
- bosc
bosc
60,324 corpus weight
- boursières
boursières
60,323 corpus weight
- Braga
Braga
60,322 corpus weight
- brass
brass
60,321 corpus weight
- brillait
brillait
60,320 corpus weight
What this shows « Braga » 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 | Braga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Braga »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Braga (IPA \bʁa.ɡa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,679 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville, municipalité et district du Portugal situé dans le Cávado.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Braga, with forms such as "barga", "bbraga", and "braag". 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, "bras", "bray", "bran", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Braga, spelled B-R-A-G-A.
Definition
- 1Ville, municipalité et district du Portugal situé dans le Cávado.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Braga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il faut savoir gré à cet archevêque de Braga, armé et équipé pour la guerre, avec sa cotte de mailles, son espadon suspendu à l’arçon de sa mule et son heaume à vantail, d’être allé aussi loin sur la voie de la spéculation théologique, peut-être que toutes ces armes dont il est affublé l’empêchent d’aboutir à des conclusions d’une logique toute human…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barga
- bbraga
- braag
- bragga
- brgaa
- brraga
- rbaga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Braga - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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