brailler
\bʁɑ.je\
The verdict
“brailler” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,757. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,757
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crier ; vociférer ; gueuler ; parler très fort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brailler · brailler · French
brailler · rank #47,757 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,757
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH branchies
Nearest frequency peer: branchies (+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 « brailler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bolivien
Bolivien
52,248 corpus weight
- bourdons
bourdons
52,246 corpus weight
- brailler
brailler
52,244 corpus weight
- branchies
branchies
52,243 corpus weight
- broad
broad
52,242 corpus weight
- buralistes
buralistes
52,241 corpus weight
What this shows « brailler » 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 | brailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɑ.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brailler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around brailler (IPA \bʁɑ.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,757 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for brailler, with forms such as "bariller", "bbrailler", and "brailelr". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Brille", "briller", "branler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 brailler, spelled B-R-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Crier ; vociférer ; gueuler ; parler très fort.
- 2Pleurer en criant.
- 3Se plaindre.
- 4Chanter fort mais pas très harmonieusement.
- 5Crier, beugler, parler ou chanter à voix très haute.
- 6Pousser son cri en parlant d'un paon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorenzo. – J’en ai assez d’entendre brailler en plein vent le bavardage humain ; il faut que le monde sache un peu qui je suis, et qui il est.
Tout conspire pour nous. Ainsi tous ceux qui plaignent les peuples, qui braillent sur la question des prolétaires et des salaires, qui font des ouvrages contre les Jésuites, qui s’occupent de l’amélioration de n’importe quoi… les Communistes, les Humanitaires… vous comprenez, tous ces gens-là sont notre avant-garde.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bariller
- bbrailler
- brailelr
- brailer
- braillerr
- braillre
- braliler
- brialler
- brrailler
- rbailler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brailler - 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 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).