branles
\bʁɑ̃l\
The verdict
“branles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,953
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de branle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-branles · branles · French
branles · rank #48,953 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,953
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulonnais
Nearest frequency peer: boulonnais (-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 « branles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bordés
bordés
51,051 corpus weight
- bougnoules
bougnoules
51,050 corpus weight
- boulonnais
boulonnais
51,049 corpus weight
- branles
branles
51,048 corpus weight
- buffles
buffles
51,046 corpus weight
- béatitude
béatitude
51,045 corpus weight
What this shows « branles » 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 | branles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɑ̃l\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « branles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around branles (IPA \bʁɑ̃l\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,953 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de branle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for branles, with forms such as "barnles", "bbranles", and "bralnes". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "brunes", "bronzés", "braqués", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is branles, spelled B-R-A-N-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de branle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barnles
- bbranles
- bralnes
- branels
- branless
- branlles
- branlse
- brannles
- brnales
- brranles
- rbanles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of branles - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).