brancher
\bʁɑ̃.ʃe\
The verdict
“brancher” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,579. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,579
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se percher sur les branches d’un arbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brancher · brancher · French
brancher · rank #15,579 · 13 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,579
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouquins
Nearest frequency peer: bouquins (-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 « brancher »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bologne
Bologne
84,425 corpus weight
- bouddhisme
bouddhisme
84,424 corpus weight
- bouquins
bouquins
84,423 corpus weight
- brancher
brancher
84,422 corpus weight
- burn
burn
84,421 corpus weight
- buter
buter
84,420 corpus weight
What this shows « brancher » 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 | brancher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brancher »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around brancher (IPA \bʁɑ̃.ʃe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,579 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for brancher, with forms such as "barncher", "bbrancher", and "bracnher". 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, "branler", "bronche", "branchés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is brancher, spelled B-R-A-N-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se percher sur les branches d’un arbre.
- 2Intéresser.
- 3Se brancher (sur), s’intéresser (à).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brancher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le faisan, la perdrix rouge, le coq de bruyère branchent.
Il a eu une adolescence précocement queutarde : sa bouchère, la couturière, la femme du notaire... On pourrait le brancher des heures sur ces fumantes évocations avec des gargouillements de bidet en fond sonore et des poils de cul sur la langue pour le faire zozoter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barncher
- bbrancher
- bracnher
- branccher
- brancehr
- brancherr
- branchher
- branchre
- branhcer
- branncher
- brnacher
- brrancher
- rbancher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brancher - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brancher", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).