Brendan
\bʁɛn.dan\
The verdict
“Brendan” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,066
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brendan · Brendan · French
Brendan · rank #20,066 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,066
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boycotter
Nearest frequency peer: boycotter (-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 « Brendan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blanchir
blanchir
79,938 corpus weight
- bouddhiste
bouddhiste
79,937 corpus weight
- boycotter
boycotter
79,936 corpus weight
- Brendan
Brendan
79,935 corpus weight
- bro
bro
79,934 corpus weight
- brosser
brosser
79,933 corpus weight
What this shows « Brendan » 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 | Brendan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛn.dan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brendan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Brendan (IPA \bʁɛn.dan\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,066 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Brendan, with forms such as "bbrendan", "berndan", and "brednan". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "brenda", "brandon", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Brendan, spelled B-R-E-N-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Brendan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laissons Brendan abandonner la verte Erin, et chercher à travers les mers la contrée idéale, l’île fortunée, ce jardin regretté d’Adam, au seuil duquel il voudrait au moins mourir comme Moïse ; laissons-le courir les aventures et entasser des miracles auprès desquels les merveilles de Robinson et de Gulliver semblent de chétives inventions, et notons seul…
La rencontre avec sa passagère, Élise, puis la complicité avec sa propre fille, Klara, vont conduire Brendan, au fil des rebondissements de ce roman, à une prise de conscience inédite pour lui.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrendan
- berndan
- brednan
- brenadn
- brendann
- brenddan
- brendna
- brenndan
- brnedan
- brrendan
- rbendan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Brendan - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).