brassard
\bʁa.saʁ\
The verdict
“brassard” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,461. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,461
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cercle de plastique, de tissu ou de papier laminé qu’on porte au bras comme signe distinctif dans certaines cérémonies ou assemblées, ou encore dans certains services militaires et dans les ambulan...
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Index FR-brassard · brassard · French
brassard · rank #19,461 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,461
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bovins
Nearest frequency peer: bovins (-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 « brassard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bonn
Bonn
80,543 corpus weight
- bouillie
bouillie
80,542 corpus weight
- bovins
bovins
80,541 corpus weight
- brassard
brassard
80,540 corpus weight
- Brett
Brett
80,539 corpus weight
- Briand
Briand
80,538 corpus weight
What this shows « brassard » 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 | brassard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.saʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brassard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around brassard (IPA \bʁa.saʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,461 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brassard, with forms such as "barssard", "bbrassard", and "brasard". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "brasser", "Brossard", "Bastard", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is brassard, spelled B-R-A-S-S-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Cercle de plastique, de tissu ou de papier laminé qu’on porte au bras comme signe distinctif dans certaines cérémonies ou assemblées, ou encore dans certains services militaires et dans les ambulances, permettant de s'identifier ou de déclarer son appartenance à une organisation.
- 2Cercle de tissu blanc porté au bras gauche par les garçons lors de leur communion solennelle.
- 3Cercle de tissu qui est porté au bras comme signe de deuil.
- 4Pièce des anciennes armures qui couvrait le bras de l’homme de guerre.
- 5Espèce de garniture de cuir ou du cylindre de bois dont on se couvre le bras pour jouer au ballon.
- 6Bande gonflable, se mettant autour des bras d’un petit enfant, pour lui servir de bouée peu encombrante. — (brassard sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia , consulté le 22 juin 2016)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brassard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu vois, Miette, ces hommes qui ont au coude gauche un brassard d’étoffe rouge ? Ce sont les chefs.
« Nous avons une épidémie de peur. Actuellement, si j’appelle choléra un brassard jaune et si je le fais porter à mille personnes, les mille crèvent en quinze jours. »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barssard
- bbrassard
- brasard
- brasasrd
- brassadr
- brassardd
- brassarrd
- brassrad
- brrassard
- brsasard
- rbassard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brassard - 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).