bricoler
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,496
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
bricoler is aFrenchverb. It means: Jouer de bricole, soit à la paume, soit au billard. Pronounced \bʁi.kɔ.le\. Often confused with briller and bricoleur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bricoler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁi.kɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bricoler is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁi.kɔ.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,496 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for bricoler, with forms such as "bbricoler", "bircoler", and "brcioler". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "briller", "bricoleur", "bricole", 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 bricoler, spelled B-R-I-C-O-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jouer de bricole, soit à la paume, soit au billard.
- 2Biaiser, tergiverser.
- 3Changer de piste, en parlant d'un chien.
- 4Passer adroitement entre les arbres et les buissons, en parlant d'un cheval.
- 5Faire toute sorte de petites besognes.
- 6Réparer, fabriquer, arranger quelque chose avec des moyens limités.
- 7Couper et coller des matériaux, pour donner un travail artistique.
- 8Manger avidement quelque chose de chaud, en le faisant tourner à l’intérieur de la bouche.
- 9Accommoder, mettre en œuvre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbricoler,bircoler,brcioler,briccoler,bricloer,bricoelr,bricolerr,bricoller,bricolre,briocler,brricoler,rbicoler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bricoler
Misspelling Variants of "bricoler"
Frequency rank: #30,496 in French
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