Brasil
\bɾaˈsil\
The verdict
“Brasil” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,736
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brésil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brasil · Brasil · French
Brasil · rank #36,736 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,736
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brief
Nearest frequency peer: Brief (+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 « Brasil »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouffent
bouffent
63,269 corpus weight
- boulon
boulon
63,268 corpus weight
- bovin
bovin
63,267 corpus weight
- Brasil
Brasil
63,265 corpus weight
- Brief
Brief
63,264 corpus weight
- brigue
brigue
63,262 corpus weight
What this shows « Brasil » 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 | Brasil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɾaˈsil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brasil »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Brasil (IPA \bɾaˈsil\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,736 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Brésil.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Brasil, with forms such as "barsil", "bbrasil", and "braisl". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "brass", "Brésil", "brasse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Brasil, spelled B-R-A-S-I-L.
Definition
- 1Brésil.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barsil
- bbrasil
- braisl
- brasill
- brasli
- brassil
- brrasil
- brsail
- rbasil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Brasil - 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 "Brasil", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).