braque
\bʁak\
The verdict
“braque” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,380
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien d’arrêt originaires du continent européen, à oreilles pendantes et le plus souvent à poil court, parfois à poil dur, excellent pour la chasse en plaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braque · braque · French
braque · rank #20,380 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,380
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bousculer
Nearest frequency peer: bousculer (-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 « braque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boost
boost
79,624 corpus weight
- bouleversem…
bouleversements
79,623 corpus weight
- bousculer
bousculer
79,622 corpus weight
- braque
braque
79,621 corpus weight
- canoë
canoë
79,620 corpus weight
- Carrie
Carrie
79,619 corpus weight
What this shows « braque » 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 | braque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « braque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around braque (IPA \bʁak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,380 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Race de chien d’arrêt originaires du continent européen, à oreilles pendantes et le plus souvent à poil court, parfois à poil dur, excellent pour la chasse en plaine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for braque, with forms such as "bbraque", "braqeu", and "braqque". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brave", "braun", "brique", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 braque, spelled B-R-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Race de chien d’arrêt originaires du continent européen, à oreilles pendantes et le plus souvent à poil court, parfois à poil dur, excellent pour la chasse en plaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how braque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les braques font partie du groupe 7 du classement des races de chien par la Société centrale canine.
On aurait pu se croire dans un fumoir anglais Nous sirotions à deux un breuvage irlandais Dehors, c'était la pluie, la tempête, le froid A nos pieds, reposait un très vieux braque hongrois.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbraque
- braqeu
- braqque
- brauqe
- brqaue
- brraque
- rbaque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of braque - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).