brevet
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,319
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
brevet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Titre ou diplôme qui était délivré au nom de l’état. Pronounced \bʁə.vɛ\. It ranks #5,319 in French word frequency. Often confused with brive and Brexit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brevet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁə.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brevet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁə.vɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,319 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for brevet, with forms such as "bbrevet", "bervet", and "breevt". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "brive", "Brexit", "brunet", and more, 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 brevet, spelled B-R-E-V-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Titre ou diplôme qui était délivré au nom de l’état.
- 2Diplôme de l’enseignement primaire et secondaire.
- 3Titre décerné oralement.
- 4Certificat que le gouvernement délivre à un inventeur, à l’auteur d’une nouvelle invention, pour lui en assurer la propriété et l’exploitation exclusive pendant un certain nombre d’années.
- 5Expédition non scellée, par laquelle le souverain accordait une grâce, un titre, etc.
- 6Reconnaissance de marchandises chargées à bord, et obligation de les porter à destination.
- 7Bain d’une cuve.
- 8Habilitation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrevet,bervet,breevt,brevett,brevte,brevvet,brrevet,brveet,rbevet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "brevet"
Frequency rank: #5,319 in French
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