Brazzaville
\bʁa.za.vil\
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
- bishop
bishop
80,782 corpus weight
- boussole
boussole
80,780 corpus weight
- Brazzaville
Brazzaville
80,779 corpus weight
- breaking
breaking
80,778 corpus weight
- brive
brive
80,777 corpus weight
- brèves
brèves
80,776 corpus weight
What this shows « Brazzaville » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brazzaville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.za.vil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #19,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brazzaville »
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
- 1Ville et capitale de République du Congo.
- 2Gouvernement de la République du Congo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brazzaville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 "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).