breaking

\bʁɛ.kiŋ\

/\bʁɛ.kiŋ\/ noun

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The verdict

“breaking” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,223. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,223
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
12
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme de danse sportive et acrobatique, souvent appelée breakdance.

Corpus desk

Index FR-breaking · breaking · French

breaking · rank #19,223 · 12 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,223
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Brazzaville

Nearest frequency peer: Brazzaville (-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 « breaking »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « breaking » 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 breaking
PropertyValue
Headwordbreaking
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁɛ.kiŋ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#19,223
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « breaking »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).breakingse 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 « Brazzaville » (#19,222), « brive » (#19,224), « boussole » (#19,221). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « breaking » est au #19,223. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around breaking (IPA \bʁɛ.kiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,223 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forme de danse sportive et acrobatique, souvent appelée breakdance.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for breaking, with forms such as "bbreaking", "beraking", and "braeking". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

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 breaking, spelled B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forme de danse sportive et acrobatique, souvent appelée breakdance.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Mélange de danse et de gymnastique, le breaking est l’autre (et vrai) nom du breakdance.
  2. Un nouveau sport connaîtra ses débuts olympiques à Paris 2024 : le breaking.

Synonyms

breakdance

This word in other languages

breaking(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbreaking
  • beraking
  • braeking
  • breaikng
  • breakign
  • breakingg
  • breakinng
  • breakking
  • breaknig
  • brekaing
  • brreaking
  • rbeaking

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

bbreaking1beraking2braeking2breaikng2breakign2breakingg1breakinng1breakking1
Edit distance from "breaking"

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 "breaking"?
"breaking" is spelled B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁɛ.kiŋ\.
What does "breaking" mean?
As a noun, "breaking" means: Forme de danse sportive et acrobatique, souvent appelée breakdance.
What are common misspellings of "breaking"?
Common misspellings include "bbreaking", "beraking", "braeking", "breaikng", "breakign". The correct spelling is "breaking".
How do you pronounce "breaking"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "breaking" is \bʁɛ.kiŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "breaking" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

boussole#19,221caprices#19,230bavarois#19,215castille#19,231

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

coaching12 variantsallocution12 variantsaccomplis12 variantsdétachée12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list