brasseur

\bʁa.sœʁ\

/\bʁa.sœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“brasseur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,079
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui brasse de la bière et qui en vend en gros.

Corpus desk

Index FR-brasseur · brasseur · French

brasseur · rank #28,079 · 10 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,079
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bourgs

Nearest frequency peer: bourgs (-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 « brasseur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « brasseur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

brasseur vs brosser
75% similar
brasseur vs brasseurs
89% similar
brasseur vs brasse
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for brasseur
PropertyValue
Headwordbrasseur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁa.sœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,079
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brasseur »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).brasseurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bourgs » (#28,078), « bribes » (#28,080), « bourgeoises » (#28,077). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brasseur » est au #28,079. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around brasseur (IPA \bʁa.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,079 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for brasseur, with forms such as "barsseur", "bbrasseur", and "brasesur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "brosser", "brasseurs", "brasse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 brasseur, spelled B-R-A-S-S-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui brasse de la bière et qui en vend en gros.
  2. 2
    Tenancier d’une brasserie.
  3. 3
    Personne qui brasse.
  4. 4
    Personne qui machine, trame, complote.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how brasseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quand les Fresnois sortirent des vêpres, le brasseur les engagea de nouveau à se rafraîchir.
  2. En vérité je vous le dis, s’il existe en ce coin reculé de France un seul brasseur qui substitue encore au houblon un ersatz chimique, c’est bien grand malfaiteur, car l’Alsace, à elle seule, regorge en ce moment de houblon au point de ne savoir qu’en faire.

Synonyms

malteur

This word in other languages

brewer(English)cervecero(Español)cervejeiro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • barsseur
  • bbrasseur
  • brasesur
  • braseur
  • brasseru
  • brasseurr
  • brassuer
  • brrasseur
  • brsaseur
  • rbasseur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brasseur - 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.

barsseur2bbrasseur1brasesur2braseur1brasseru2brasseurr1brassuer2brrasseur1
Edit distance from "brasseur"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brasseur"?
"brasseur" is spelled B-R-A-S-S-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁa.sœʁ\.
What does "brasseur" mean?
As a noun, "brasseur" means: Personne qui brasse de la bière et qui en vend en gros.
What words are commonly confused with "brasseur"?
"brasseur" is commonly confused with "brosser", "brasseurs", "brasse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brasseur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brasseur" is \bʁa.sœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brasseur" come from?
"brasseur" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brasseur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bouchers#28,076byzantin#28,083Camargue#28,086cantonal#28,087

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

attestée10 variantsargiles10 variantsannulées10 variantsajoutera10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list