braille
\bʁaj\
The verdict
“braille” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,670
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système d’alphabet en relief permettant aux aveugles et aux malvoyants de lire et d’écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braille · braille · French
braille · rank #29,670 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,670
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH braconnage
Nearest frequency peer: braconnage (-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 « braille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bolton
bolton
70,334 corpus weight
- Bowman
Bowman
70,333 corpus weight
- braconnage
braconnage
70,332 corpus weight
- braille
braille
70,331 corpus weight
- Brienne
Brienne
70,330 corpus weight
- Brisbane
Brisbane
70,329 corpus weight
What this shows « braille » 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 | braille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁaj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « braille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around braille (IPA \bʁaj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,670 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Système d’alphabet en relief permettant aux aveugles et aux malvoyants de lire et d’écrire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for braille, with forms such as "barille", "bbraille", and "braile". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "branle", "Brille", "braise", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is braille, spelled B-R-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Système d’alphabet en relief permettant aux aveugles et aux malvoyants de lire et d’écrire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how braille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce texte est écrit en braille.
Contrairement aux écritures visuelles, le braille se lit avec les doigts.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barille
- bbraille
- braile
- brailel
- bralile
- brialle
- brraille
- rbaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of braille - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "braille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).