bricolage
\bʁi.kɔ.laʒ\
The verdict
“bricolage” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,616
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activité manuelle visant à réparer, ou fabriquer des petits objets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bricolage · bricolage · French
bricolage · rank #14,616 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,616
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bordelais
Nearest frequency peer: bordelais (-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 « bricolage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- berges
berges
85,388 corpus weight
- bonbon
bonbon
85,387 corpus weight
- bordelais
bordelais
85,386 corpus weight
- bricolage
bricolage
85,385 corpus weight
- brûlant
brûlant
85,384 corpus weight
- buffalo
buffalo
85,382 corpus weight
What this shows « bricolage » 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 | bricolage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.kɔ.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bricolage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around bricolage (IPA \bʁi.kɔ.laʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,616 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for bricolage, with forms such as "bbricolage", "bircolage", and "brciolage". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bricole", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bricolage, spelled B-R-I-C-O-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Activité manuelle visant à réparer, ou fabriquer des petits objets.
- 2Activité manuelle visant à réparer, ou fabriquer des petits objets.
- 3Travail amateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bricolage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aime mon lieu de vie tel qu’il est, assez rustique, sauvage et vivant, pour ne pas ressembler à un cliché dans La Maison de Marie-Claire – soyons honnête, je n’en ai pas les moyens et pourtant je suis une pro dans l’art de la récup’ et du bricolage.
Dans sa passion pour le bricolage, cet homme pratiquement analphabète, au tempérament rude, se mit à « réparer » tout ce que la maison comportait de gadgets, y compris ceux qui fonctionnaient parfaitement bien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbricolage
- bircolage
- brciolage
- briccolage
- bricloage
- bricoalge
- bricolaeg
- bricolagge
- bricolgae
- bricollage
- brioclage
- brricolage
- rbicolage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bricolage - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).