breuil
\bʁœj\
The verdict
“breuil” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,150
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bois, taillis ou buisson enfermé de haies dans lequel les bêtes se retirent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-breuil · breuil · French
breuil · rank #40,150 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,150
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH branchez
Nearest frequency peer: branchez (-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 « breuil »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouleversan…
bouleversante
59,854 corpus weight
- boîtiers
boîtiers
59,853 corpus weight
- branchez
branchez
59,852 corpus weight
- breuil
breuil
59,851 corpus weight
- bricole
bricole
59,850 corpus weight
- brochet
brochet
59,849 corpus weight
What this shows « breuil » 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 | breuil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁœj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « breuil »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around breuil (IPA \bʁœj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,150 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for breuil, with forms such as "bbreuil", "beruil", and "breiul". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "bruit", "Brexit", "Brel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is breuil, spelled B-R-E-U-I-L.
Definition
- 1Bois, taillis ou buisson enfermé de haies dans lequel les bêtes se retirent.
- 2Pré de très bonne qualité à proximité du village que les paysans devaient faucher gratuitement pour le compte du seigneur local
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breuil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait un breuil ou parc réservé , avec maison royale secondaire , qui a donné naissance au hameau de Breuil ( Bruleii villa ) […]
En 1239, Wauthier, chevalier et seigneur d’Haussonville abandonne « les corvées et le breuil qu’il possède à Mattexey ainsi que les redevances et cens en toutes sortes » au profit de l’abbaye de Moyenmoutiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbreuil
- beruil
- breiul
- breuill
- breuli
- brreuil
- brueil
- rbeuil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of breuil - 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 "breuil", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).