brigades
\bʁi.ɡad\
The verdict
“brigades” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,081
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de brigade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brigades · brigades · French
brigades · rank #16,081 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,081
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bravoure
Nearest frequency peer: bravoure (-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 « brigades »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- BNP
BNP
83,924 corpus weight
- bobos
bobos
83,923 corpus weight
- bravoure
bravoure
83,921 corpus weight
- brigades
brigades
83,920 corpus weight
- bélier
bélier
83,919 corpus weight
- candy
candy
83,917 corpus weight
What this shows « brigades » 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 | brigades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.ɡad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brigades »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around brigades (IPA \bʁi.ɡad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,081 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de brigade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brigades, with forms such as "bbrigades", "birgades", and "brgiades". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "brigands", "brimades", "brigadier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brigades, spelled B-R-I-G-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de brigade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brigades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au cours de sa carrière, Xavier Dorison a coscénarisé un film, « Les brigades du Tigre », en 2006, adaptation de la célèbre série télé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrigades
- birgades
- brgiades
- briagdes
- brigaddes
- brigadess
- brigadse
- brigaeds
- brigdaes
- briggades
- brrigades
- rbigades
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brigades - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "brigades", 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).