Brassens
\bʁa.sɛ̃s\
The verdict
“Brassens” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,782
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brassens · Brassens · French
Brassens · rank #22,782 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,782
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bossent
Nearest frequency peer: bossent (-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 « Brassens »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- beurette
beurette
77,222 corpus weight
- borde
borde
77,221 corpus weight
- bossent
bossent
77,220 corpus weight
- Brassens
Brassens
77,219 corpus weight
- brillamment
brillamment
77,218 corpus weight
- brisées
brisées
77,217 corpus weight
What this shows « Brassens » 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 | Brassens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.sɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brassens »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Brassens (IPA \bʁa.sɛ̃s\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,782 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Brassens, with forms such as "barssens", "bbrassens", and "brasens". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "brosses", "brasser", "Brussels", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Brassens, spelled B-R-A-S-S-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brassens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Pour le lycée Brassens, l’objectif est de fermer un établissement de petite dimension et de renvoyer les élèves qui ont des horaires aménagés (musique, danse, sport) vers le lycée Bergson, pour remonter le niveau et l’image du lycée Bergson », croit savoir aussi Emmanuel Garot, porte-parole de la Peep.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barssens
- bbrassens
- brasens
- brasesns
- brassenns
- brassenss
- brassesn
- brassnes
- brrassens
- brsasens
- rbassens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Brassens - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Brassens", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).