Bretagne

Name: Bretagne, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\bʁə.taɲ\

/\bʁə.taɲ\/ name

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“Bretagne” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,620. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,620
frequency rank, French: 4,251
“B” headwords: 12
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande péninsule de l’ouest de la France s'identifiant avec la région historique dont la superficie avoisine celle des cinq départements qui se situent sur ce territoire : le Finistère, le Morbihan...

Corpus desk

Index FR-bretagne · Bretagne · French

Bretagne · rank #1,620 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #1,620
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
VAR-MID 12 variants
BOOK-MID 4,251
PHOTO-FINISH auteurs

Nearest frequency peer: auteurs (-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.

acteurs

98,384
augmentation

98,383
auteurs

98,382
Bretagne

98,381
bruit

98,380
classement

98,379

What this shows « Bretagne » 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).

Bretagne vs bretonne

63% similar

Bretagne vs Brétigny

63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Bretagne
Property	Value
Headword	Bretagne
Language	French
Part of speech	Proper noun
IPA	\bʁə.taɲ\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#1,620
Misspellings tracked	12
Confusable pairs	2
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bretagne »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Bretagnese place ici:

#1,620

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « auteurs » (#1,619), « bruit » (#1,621), « augmentation » (#1,618). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Bretagne » est au #1,620. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around Bretagne (IPA \bʁə.taɲ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,620 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bretagne, with forms such as "bbretagne", "bertagne", and "breatgne". 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, "bretonne", "Brétigny", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Bretagne, spelled B-R-E-T-A-G-N-E.

Definition

1
Grande péninsule de l’ouest de la France s'identifiant avec la région historique dont la superficie avoisine celle des cinq départements qui se situent sur ce territoire : le Finistère, le Morbihan, l’Ille-et-Vilaine, la Loire-Atlantique et les Côtes-d’Armor.
2
Ancien royaume, puis duché rattaché au royaume de France.
3
Région administrative française composée de quatre départements : le Finistère, le Morbihan, l’Ille-et-Vilaine et les Côtes-d’Armor.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Il ne faut pas croire que tous les chevaux qui s’élèvent dans le Perche y soient nés; les éleveurs vont les chercher en Bretagne, en Franche-Comté, en Bourgogne, en Poitou.
Mais l’odeur dépassait tout. Pour en trouver l’équivalent, il me fallait combiner en mon esprit celle qui règne chez les doux Chippewayans – les seuls sauvages vraiment sales – et les Esquimaux. Même en y ajoutant le relent propre aux demeures islandaises des pêcheries du lac Winnipeg, je n’arrivais pas à trouver un équivalent. Grâce à la Bretagne, la Fra…

This word in other languages

Brittany(English)Bretaña(Español)Bretagne(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

bbretagne
bertagne
breatgne
bretagen
bretaggne
bretagnne
bretange
bretgane
brettagne
brretagne
brteagne
rbetagne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

Edit distance from "Bretagne"

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 "Bretagne"?

"Bretagne" is spelled B-R-E-T-A-G-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁə.taɲ\.

What does "Bretagne" mean?

As a proper noun, "Bretagne" means: Grande péninsule de l’ouest de la France s'identifiant avec la région historique dont la superficie avoisine celle des cinq départements qui se situent sur ce territoire : le Finistère, le Morbihan...

What words are commonly confused with "Bretagne"?

"Bretagne" is commonly confused with "bretonne", "Brétigny". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "Bretagne"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Bretagne" is \bʁə.taɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "Bretagne" come from?

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

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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