Briançon
\bʁi.jɑ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“Briançon” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,495
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Alpes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briancon · Briançon · French
Briançon · rank #30,495 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,495
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH botté
Nearest frequency peer: botté (-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 « Briançon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bogota
Bogota
69,509 corpus weight
- bots
bots
69,508 corpus weight
- botté
botté
69,507 corpus weight
- Briançon
Briançon
69,506 corpus weight
- bricoler
bricoler
69,505 corpus weight
- Brock
Brock
69,503 corpus weight
What this shows « Briançon » 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 | Briançon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.jɑ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Briançon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Briançon (IPA \bʁi.jɑ̃.sɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,495 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Alpes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Briançon, with forms such as "bbriançon", "birançon", and "brainçon". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "branco", "bianco", "brandon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Briançon, spelled B-R-I-A-N-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Alpes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Briançon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'autres ont fait l'application de leur art à l'analyse des eaux minérales qui abondent dans ce département. Les principales sont celles du Monétier près Briançon, du Plan-de-Fazi près Mont-Lyon, d'Aspres-sur-Buech, de Saint-Pierre-d'Argençon et de Laragne.
— Moi, mon pote, à Briançon, j’ai pas vu la queue d’une goutte de flotte en un mois !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbriançon
- birançon
- brainçon
- briancon
- briannçon
- brianoçn
- briançno
- briançonn
- briaçnon
- brinaçon
- brriançon
- rbiançon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Briançon - 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.
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 "Briançon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).