brillance
\bʁi.jɑ̃s\
The verdict
“brillance” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,157
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est brillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brillance · brillance · French
brillance · rank #33,157 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,157
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH breuvage
Nearest frequency peer: breuvage (-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 « brillance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- braquages
braquages
66,847 corpus weight
- braver
braver
66,846 corpus weight
- breuvage
breuvage
66,845 corpus weight
- brillance
brillance
66,844 corpus weight
- broderies
broderies
66,843 corpus weight
- brèches
brèches
66,842 corpus weight
What this shows « brillance » 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 | brillance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.jɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brillance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around brillance (IPA \bʁi.jɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,157 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État de ce qui est brillant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brillance, with forms such as "bbrillance", "birllance", and "brilalnce". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "brillant", "brillante", "brillants", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 brillance, spelled B-R-I-L-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est brillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brillance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À quatre heures exactement, elle arriva. Ce ne fut d’abord qu’un éclat de brillance dans le fond de la rue comme l’éclair avant le tonnerre. Puis sa carrosserie noire à angles droits, sérieuse et luxueuse, emplit l’espace entre les maisons. Elle s’avançait, lente et silencieuse.
La mari, le jeudi, garnit le trottoir, sa sœur déambule dans sa robe de soie violette et fait jaillir, à chaque pas, les brèves brillances des perles de la bourse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrillance
- birllance
- brilalnce
- brilance
- brillacne
- brillancce
- brillanec
- brillannce
- brillnace
- brlilance
- brrillance
- rbillance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brillance - 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 "brillance", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).