Bresse
\bʁɛs\
The verdict
“Bresse” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,948
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région historique et naturelle française, située dans les départements de l'Ain, du Jura et de la Saône-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bresse · Bresse · French
Bresse · rank #18,948 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,948
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biche
Nearest frequency peer: biche (-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 « Bresse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- beni
beni
81,056 corpus weight
- Benz
Benz
81,055 corpus weight
- biche
biche
81,054 corpus weight
- Bresse
Bresse
81,053 corpus weight
- bunker
bunker
81,052 corpus weight
- cambriolage
cambriolage
81,051 corpus weight
What this shows « Bresse » 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 | Bresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bresse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Bresse (IPA \bʁɛs\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,948 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bresse, with forms such as "bbresse", "bersse", and "brese". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Brise", "Brest", "brève", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bresse, spelled B-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Région historique et naturelle française, située dans les départements de l'Ain, du Jura et de la Saône-et-Loire.
- 2Synonyme de poule de Bresse (race de poules).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bresse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La seconde, c'est que le pays dénommé Franc-Lyonnais se divise, non-seulement en deux parties bien distinctes, mais se trouve composé surtout de portions de communes ou paroisses dont le reste dépend du Lyonnais, de la Bresse ou de la Dombes.
Alors aussi [en 1525], quoique situées dans l’archiprêtré de Dombes, toutes les terres qui appartenaient aux ducs de Savoie prirent le nom de Bresse : ainsi Lay ou Pont-de-Veyle, Grièges, Cormoranches, Mépillat, Fleurieux près de Châtillon, Clémentia, l’Abergement, Montanais, Mionnay, Rillieux, Saint-Didier-de-Miribel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbresse
- bersse
- brese
- breses
- brresse
- brsese
- rbesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bresse - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).