breakfast

\bʁɛk.fœst\

/\bʁɛk.fœst\/ noun

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The verdict

“breakfast” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,581. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,581
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
14
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit déjeuner à l’anglaise.

Corpus desk

Index FR-breakfast · breakfast · French

breakfast · rank #33,581 · 14 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,581
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH boude

Nearest frequency peer: boude (-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 « breakfast »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « breakfast » 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 breakfast
PropertyValue
Headwordbreakfast
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁɛk.fœst\
Letters9
Frequency rank#33,581
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « breakfast »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.breakfastse 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 « boude » (#33,580), « brière » (#33,582), « botter » (#33,579). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « breakfast » est au #33,581. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around breakfast (IPA \bʁɛk.fœst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit déjeuner à l’anglaise.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for breakfast, with forms such as "bbreakfast", "berakfast", and "braekfast". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 breakfast, spelled B-R-E-A-K-F-A-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit déjeuner à l’anglaise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Rien n’était changé en apparence : tous les matins, un breakfast sommaire, puis le bureau, où sa besogne lui semblait maintenant plus facile et plus plaisante que jamais.
  2. Il y eut ensuite deux autres couples, plus indistincts, qui semblaient reliés par une fraternité obscure. Étaient-ils déjà partis ensemble ? Avaient-ils fait connaissance autour d’un breakfast ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbreakfast
  • berakfast
  • braekfast
  • breafkast
  • breakafst
  • breakfasst
  • breakfastt
  • breakfats
  • breakffast
  • breakfsat
  • breakkfast
  • brekafast
  • brreakfast
  • rbeakfast

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

bbreakfast1berakfast2braekfast2breafkast2breakafst2breakfasst1breakfastt1breakfats2
Edit distance from "breakfast"

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 "breakfast"?
"breakfast" is spelled B-R-E-A-K-F-A-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁɛk.fœst\.
What does "breakfast" mean?
As a noun, "breakfast" means: Petit déjeuner à l’anglaise.
What are common misspellings of "breakfast"?
Common misspellings include "bbreakfast", "berakfast", "braekfast", "breafkast", "breakafst". The correct spelling is "breakfast".
How do you pronounce "breakfast"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "breakfast" is \bʁɛk.fœst\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "breakfast" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

boiseries#33,575blancheur#33,573Berthelot#33,570carnivore#33,596

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

cristallin14 variantscélébrait14 variantsdescendez14 variantsdonneraient14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list