brick
\bʁik\
The verdict
“brick” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,886
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voilier à deux mâts gréés à voiles carrées et portant des hunes à l’extrémité des bas-mâts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brick · brick · French
brick · rank #24,886 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,886
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH braun
Nearest frequency peer: braun (-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 « brick »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouleverse
bouleverse
75,118 corpus weight
- bourgade
bourgade
75,117 corpus weight
- braun
braun
75,116 corpus weight
- brick
brick
75,115 corpus weight
- brûlante
brûlante
75,114 corpus weight
- caisson
caisson
75,112 corpus weight
What this shows « brick » 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 | brick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brick »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around brick (IPA \bʁik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,886 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Voilier à deux mâts gréés à voiles carrées et portant des hunes à l’extrémité des bas-mâts.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for brick, with forms such as "bbrick", "birck", and "brcik". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brin", "brie", "buck", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is brick, spelled B-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Voilier à deux mâts gréés à voiles carrées et portant des hunes à l’extrémité des bas-mâts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’année 1808, un brick américain, venant de la rivière de la Plata, fit naufrage près d’une des Fidji.
Ah ! ce n’est pas toujours profit que d’être un mauvais sujet ! — ajouta-t-il, avec une mélancolie qui me frappa dans ce luron formidable que je croyais doublé de cuivre comme un brick grec.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrick
- birck
- brcik
- bricck
- brickk
- brikc
- brrick
- rbick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brick - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).