branleur
\bʁɑ̃.lœʁ\
The verdict
“branleur” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,258
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paillard ou femme qui fait son métier de branler les hommes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-branleur · branleur · French
branleur · rank #29,258 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,258
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boutade
Nearest frequency peer: boutade (-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 « branleur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bougeait
bougeait
70,746 corpus weight
- Boulay
Boulay
70,745 corpus weight
- boutade
boutade
70,744 corpus weight
- branleur
branleur
70,743 corpus weight
- brisant
brisant
70,742 corpus weight
- bure
bure
70,740 corpus weight
What this shows « branleur » 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 | branleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɑ̃.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « branleur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around branleur (IPA \bʁɑ̃.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,258 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for branleur, with forms such as "barnleur", "bbranleur", and "bralneur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "braqueur", "brasseur", "branleurs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is branleur, spelled B-R-A-N-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Paillard ou femme qui fait son métier de branler les hommes.
- 2Onaniste.
- 3Personne qui emploie une partie significative de son temps à ne rien faire d’utile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how branleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Assez souvent il lui est arrivé de se livrer à l'onanisme, en contemplant ses voisines ou en y songeant. […]. C’est qu’en effet on le tourne en ridicule on se moque de lui, on fait des allusions blessantes à ses mauvaises habitudes. […]. Il comprend que, s’il allait dans la rue, un tas de voyous s’ameuteraient autour de lui ; on lui dirait : « Voyez le sa…
Des astecs, des peigne-grelots, des quarterons interrompus par un coup de sonnette, trois-quart de sang petit bourgeois envahi d’idées préfabriquées, un quart de sang marlou-de-carnaval, des chiards exhibitionnistes, des branleurs de pissotière déguisés en paladins d’opéra-bouffe, des manekenpiss en papier mâché, des guignols.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barnleur
- bbranleur
- bralneur
- branelur
- branleru
- branleurr
- branlleur
- branluer
- brannleur
- brnaleur
- brranleur
- rbanleur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of branleur - 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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