Brasilia
\bʁa.zi.lja\
The verdict
“Brasilia” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,200. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,200
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du Brésil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brasilia · Brasilia · French
Brasilia · rank #42,200 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,200
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boxers
Nearest frequency peer: boxers (-2 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 « Brasilia »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bosquets
bosquets
57,805 corpus weight
- boucheries
boucheries
57,804 corpus weight
- boxers
boxers
57,803 corpus weight
- Brasilia
Brasilia
57,801 corpus weight
- brodée
brodée
57,799 corpus weight
- Buick
Buick
57,797 corpus weight
What this shows « Brasilia » 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 | Brasilia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.zi.lja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brasilia »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Brasilia (IPA \bʁa.zi.lja\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #42,200 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capitale du Brésil.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Brasilia, with forms such as "barsilia", "bbrasilia", and "braislia". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Brasil", "basilic", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Brasilia, spelled B-R-A-S-I-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Brésil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Brasilia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur la steppe rouge du Planalto central, où les arbres ne poussent qu'à contrecœur, Brasilia est une ville retranchée, une capitale solitaire, loin, très loin, du Brésil utile, du pays réel.
On ne parle pas portugais seulement à Lisbonne ou à Brasilia, mais aussi en Angola, à Macao ou au Timor oriental.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barsilia
- bbrasilia
- braislia
- brasiila
- brasilai
- brasillia
- brasliia
- brassilia
- brrasilia
- brsailia
- rbasilia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Brasilia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).