Brazzaville

\bʁa.za.vil\

/\bʁa.za.vil\/ name

The verdict

“Brazzaville” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,222. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,222
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et capitale de République du Congo.

Corpus desk

Index FR-brazzaville · Brazzaville · French

Brazzaville · rank #19,222 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,222
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH boussole

Nearest frequency peer: boussole (-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 « Brazzaville »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Brazzaville » 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
Key facts for Brazzaville
PropertyValue
HeadwordBrazzaville
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\bʁa.za.vil\
Letters11
Frequency rank#19,222
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brazzaville »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Brazzavillese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « boussole » (#19,221), « breaking » (#19,223), « brive » (#19,224). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Brazzaville » est au #19,222. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around Brazzaville (IPA \bʁa.za.vil\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,222 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Brazzaville, with forms such as "barzzaville", "bbrazzaville", and "brazaville". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Brazzaville, spelled B-R-A-Z-Z-A-V-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville et capitale de République du Congo.
  2. 2
    Gouvernement de la République du Congo.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Brazzaville a annoncé, mercredi 4 mars, que « tout passager en provenance de pays à risque sera mis en quarantaine à son arrivée en République du Congo » pour lutter contre le coronavirus, en citant cinq pays : la France, l’Italie, la Chine, la Corée du Sud et l’Iran.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • barzzaville
  • bbrazzaville
  • brazaville
  • brazazville
  • brazzaivlle
  • brazzavile
  • brazzavilel
  • brazzavlile
  • brazzavville
  • brazzvaille
  • brrazzaville
  • brzazaville
  • rbazzaville

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

barzzaville2bbrazzaville1brazaville1brazazville2brazzaivlle2brazzavile1brazzavilel2brazzavlile2
Edit distance from "Brazzaville"

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 "Brazzaville"?
"Brazzaville" is spelled B-R-A-Z-Z-A-V-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁa.za.vil\.
What does "Brazzaville" mean?
As a proper noun, "Brazzaville" means: Ville et capitale de République du Congo.
What are common misspellings of "Brazzaville"?
Common misspellings include "barzzaville", "bbrazzaville", "brazaville", "brazazville", "brazzaivlle". The correct spelling is "Brazzaville".
How do you pronounce "Brazzaville"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Brazzaville" is \bʁa.za.vil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Brazzaville" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list