braises
\bʁɛz\
The verdict
“braises” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,442
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Dans certaines expressions) Cause ou source de contentieux ou de discorde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braises · braises · French
braises · rank #34,442 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,442
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH braise
Nearest frequency peer: braise (-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 « braises »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bourgoin
Bourgoin
65,562 corpus weight
- braderie
braderie
65,561 corpus weight
- braise
braise
65,560 corpus weight
- braises
braises
65,559 corpus weight
- Broglie
Broglie
65,558 corpus weight
- Bungalow
Bungalow
65,557 corpus weight
What this shows « braises » 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 | braises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « braises »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around braises (IPA \bʁɛz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,442 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Dans certaines expressions) Cause ou source de contentieux ou de discorde.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for braises, with forms such as "barises", "bbraises", and "braiess". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Brise", "brass", "briser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is braises, spelled B-R-A-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1(Dans certaines expressions) Cause ou source de contentieux ou de discorde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how braises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Philippe Couillard a accusé mercredi la Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) de « souffler sur les braises de l’intolérance » en remettant en question l’accueil d’immigrants supplémentaires au Québec.
Les braises du refus du président de recevoir son mari comme chef d'État sont encore chaudes […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barises
- bbraises
- braiess
- braisess
- braisses
- brasies
- briases
- brraises
- rbaises
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of braises - 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
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).