bretelles
\bʁə.tɛl\
The verdict
“bretelles” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,499. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,499
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bretelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bretelles · bretelles · French
bretelles · rank #24,499 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,499
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourdin
Nearest frequency peer: bourdin (-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 « bretelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bougez
bougez
75,504 corpus weight
- bourdin
bourdin
75,503 corpus weight
- bretelles
bretelles
75,502 corpus weight
- brigands
brigands
75,501 corpus weight
- Bronx
Bronx
75,500 corpus weight
- brouille
brouille
75,499 corpus weight
What this shows « bretelles » 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 | bretelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁə.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bretelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bretelles (IPA \bʁə.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,499 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bretelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bretelles, with forms such as "bbretelles", "bertelles", and "breetlles". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Bruxelles", "bretelle", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bretelles, spelled B-R-E-T-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bretelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bretelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je crois que nous devrions rester aux alentours, dit Stone. Si les policiers nous rejoignent, ils installeront rapidement des tapis cloutés aux bretelles de toutes les sorties de la ville.
Elle avait tellement gigoté que sa turbulette avait ripé et qu’une des bretelles lui barrait la joue.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbretelles
- bertelles
- breetlles
- bretelels
- breteles
- bretelless
- bretellse
- bretleles
- brettelles
- brretelles
- brteelles
- rbetelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bretelles - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bretelles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).