briguer
\bʁi.ɡe\
The verdict
“briguer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,282. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,282
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Employer la brigue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briguer · briguer · French
briguer · rank #36,282 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,282
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouffées
Nearest frequency peer: bouffées (-2 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 « briguer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- BMC
BMC
63,723 corpus weight
- boomer
boomer
63,722 corpus weight
- bouffées
bouffées
63,721 corpus weight
- briguer
briguer
63,719 corpus weight
- brutaux
brutaux
63,717 corpus weight
- buildings
buildings
63,716 corpus weight
What this shows « briguer » 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 | briguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁi.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « briguer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around briguer (IPA \bʁi.ɡe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,282 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for briguer, with forms such as "bbriguer", "birguer", and "brgiuer". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "briser", "brique", "briller", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 briguer, spelled B-R-I-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Employer la brigue.
- 2Tâcher d’obtenir quelque chose par brigue.
- 3Solliciter, rechercher avec ardeur, avec empressement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how briguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne cessait de briguer.
Il croyait réussir à force de briguer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbriguer
- birguer
- brgiuer
- brigeur
- brigguer
- briguerr
- brigure
- briuger
- brriguer
- rbiguer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of briguer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "briguer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).