bredouille
\bʁə.duj\
The verdict
“bredouille” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,339. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,339
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des marques du jeu de trictrac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bredouille · bredouille · French
bredouille · rank #44,339 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #44,339
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH breaks
Nearest frequency peer: breaks (-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 « bredouille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bolcheviks
bolcheviks
55,666 corpus weight
- bourrées
bourrées
55,665 corpus weight
- breaks
breaks
55,663 corpus weight
- bredouille
bredouille
55,662 corpus weight
- Breteuil
Breteuil
55,661 corpus weight
- butterfly
butterfly
55,658 corpus weight
What this shows « bredouille » 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 | bredouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁə.duj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #44,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bredouille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bredouille (IPA \bʁə.duj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,339 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Une des marques du jeu de trictrac.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bredouille, with forms such as "bbredouille", "berdouille", and "brdeouille". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "brouille", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bredouille, spelled B-R-E-D-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Une des marques du jeu de trictrac.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bredouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
BREDOUILLE, s. f. terme de Trictrac : on appelle ainsi le jetton qui sert à marquer que les points qu’on a, on les a pris sans interruption : ainsi, je gagne quatre points, je marque ces quatre points avec un jetton accompagné de celui de la bredouille : j’en gagne encore deux, qui avec quatre que j’avois font six, je marque ces six points avec un jetton,…
Gagner une partie grande bredouille c’est marquer 12 trous de suite, tandis que l’autre joueur n’en marque aucun.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbredouille
- berdouille
- brdeouille
- breddouille
- bredoiulle
- bredouile
- bredouilel
- bredoulile
- breduoille
- breoduille
- brredouille
- rbedouille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bredouille - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).