bretelle
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,376
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
bretelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bande, courroie, sangle plus ou moins large que l’on passe sur les épaules et qui sert à porter certaines choses. Pronounced \bʁə.tɛl\. Often confused with bretelles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bretelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁə.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bretelle is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁə.tɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,376 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bretelle, with forms such as "bbretelle", "bertelle", and "breetlle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bretelles", 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 bretelle, spelled B-R-E-T-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bande, courroie, sangle plus ou moins large que l’on passe sur les épaules et qui sert à porter certaines choses.
- 2Rubans passant sur les épaules et soutenant certains vêtements ou sous-vêtements.
- 3Chose en double qui relie quelque chose.
- 4Aiguillage formé de deux diagonales de sens contraire faisant la jonction entre deux voies parallèles.
- 5Route qui relie deux grands axes de circulation.
- 6Ligne défensive secondaire établie à l'avant ou à l'arrière de la ligne principale et la reliant en deux points.
- 7Branchement en dérivation sur une ligne téléphonique pour permettre une écoute téléphonique.
- 8Court morceau de conducteur destiné à effectuer une connexion électrique entre deux tronçons de ligne électrique.
- 9Raccord flexible ou rigide de l’ordre de quelques dizaines de mètres, qui est installé entre des équipements de production sous-marine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbretelle,bertelle,breetlle,bretele,bretelel,bretlele,brettelle,brretelle,brteelle,rbetelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bretelle
Misspelling Variants of "bretelle"
Frequency rank: #31,376 in French
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