breuvage

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

\bʁœ.vaʒ\

/\bʁœ.vaʒ\/ noun

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

The verdict

“breuvage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,156. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,156
frequency rank, French: 4,251
“B” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisson, liquide à boire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-breuvage · breuvage · French

breuvage · rank #33,156 · 11 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #33,156
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-MID 4,251
PHOTO-FINISH braver

Nearest frequency peer: braver (-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.

braquages

66,847
braver

66,846
breuvage

66,845
brillance

66,844
broderies

66,843
brèches

66,842

What this shows « breuvage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for breuvage
Property	Value
Headword	breuvage
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\bʁœ.vaʒ\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#33,156
Misspellings tracked	11
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « breuvage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).breuvagese place ici:

#33,156

#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 « braver » (#33,155), « brillance » (#33,157), « braquages » (#33,154). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « breuvage » est au #33,156. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around breuvage (IPA \bʁœ.vaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,156 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for breuvage, with forms such as "bbreuvage", "beruvage", and "breuavge". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is breuvage, spelled B-R-E-U-V-A-G-E.

Definition

1
Boisson, liquide à boire.
2
Mélange de vin et d’eau qu’on donnait quelquefois en mer aux gens de l’équipage, indépendamment de la ration.
3
Médicament liquide qu’on administre aux chevaux, aux bœufs, aux vaches, etc.
4
Boisson sans alcool, par opposition aux autres boissons.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Toutes les maîtresses de maison connaissent, pour les avoir éprouvées, les difficultés et les fatigues occasionnées par le versage des breuvages chauds, […].
Elle passait son temps à composer des breuvages et à deviner le sort par des moyens étranges, se servant d’omoplates de moutons tués à la fête du printemps, de marc de café, de petites pierres et des entrailles des bêtes fraîchement saignées.

This word in other languages

brew(English)destilado(Español)Trank(Deutsch)bebida(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

bbreuvage
beruvage
breuavge
breuvaeg
breuvagge
breuvgae
breuvvage
brevuage
brreuvage
bruevage
rbeuvage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of breuvage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "breuvage"

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 "breuvage"?

"breuvage" is spelled B-R-E-U-V-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁœ.vaʒ\.

What does "breuvage" mean?

As a noun, "breuvage" means: Boisson, liquide à boire.

What are common misspellings of "breuvage"?

Common misspellings include "bbreuvage", "beruvage", "breuavge", "breuvaeg", "breuvagge". The correct spelling is "breuvage".

How do you pronounce "breuvage"?

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

What language does "breuvage" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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