Bretagne
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,620
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Bretagne is aFrenchname. It 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... Pronounced \bʁə.taɲ\. It ranks #1,620 in French word frequency. Often confused with bretonne and Brétigny.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bretagne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \bʁə.taɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Bretagne is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁə.taɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,620 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bretagne, with forms such as "bbretagne", "bertagne", and "breatgne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bretonne", "Brétigny", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Bretagne, spelled B-R-E-T-A-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grande 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.
- 2Ancien royaume, puis duché rattaché au royaume de France.
- 3Région administrative française composée de quatre départements : le Finistère, le Morbihan, l’Ille-et-Vilaine et les Côtes-d’Armor.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbretagne,bertagne,breatgne,bretagen,bretaggne,bretagnne,bretange,bretgane,brettagne,brretagne,brteagne,rbetagne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bretagne
Misspelling Variants of "Bretagne"
Frequency rank: #1,620 in French
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