brèches
\bʁɛʃ\
The verdict
“brèches” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,159. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,159
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de brèche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-breches · brèches · French
brèches · rank #33,159 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,159
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH broderies
Nearest frequency peer: broderies (-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 « brèches »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- breuvage
breuvage
66,845 corpus weight
- brillance
brillance
66,844 corpus weight
- broderies
broderies
66,843 corpus weight
- brèches
brèches
66,842 corpus weight
- canaille
canaille
66,841 corpus weight
- casual
casual
66,840 corpus weight
What this shows « brèches » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brèches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brèches »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around brèches (IPA \bʁɛʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,159 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de brèche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brèches, with forms such as "bbrèches", "brcèhes", and "breches". 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. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "brèves", "broche", "Brecht", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 brèches, spelled B-R-È-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de brèche.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrèches
- brcèhes
- breches
- brrèches
- brècches
- brècehs
- brèchess
- brèchhes
- brèchse
- brèhces
- bèrches
- rbèches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brèches - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "brèches", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).