brillante
\bʁi.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“brillante” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,532
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de brillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brillante · brillante · French
brillante · rank #7,532 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,532
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bloque
Nearest frequency peer: bloque (-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 « brillante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- BBC
BBC
92,472 corpus weight
- bis
bis
92,471 corpus weight
- bloque
bloque
92,470 corpus weight
- brillante
brillante
92,469 corpus weight
- brûlé
brûlé
92,468 corpus weight
- bâti
bâti
92,467 corpus weight
What this shows « brillante » 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 | brillante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁi.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brillante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around brillante (IPA \bʁi.jɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,532 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de brillant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brillante, with forms such as "bbrillante", "birllante", and "brilalnte". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "brillent", "brûlante", "brillants", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is brillante, spelled B-R-I-L-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de brillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brillante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2012, Jean-Louis Seillant, qui habite à Cholet (Maine-et-Loire), avait eu une brillante idée : collecter toutes les pubs reçues dans sa boîte aux lettres pendant une année et peser le tout.
Celle-ci s’ouvrit pouce à pouce, pour laisser s’insinuer une jeunesse à la peau presque noire (mais souple et lisse), à la robe vert-Nil trop brillante pour être en vraie soie, à la petite poitrine pointue, aux hanches plus gauloises qu’hottentotes, aux cheveux décrêpés de la veille (c’est-à-dire déjà bien près de leur état naturel).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrillante
- birllante
- brilalnte
- brilante
- brillanet
- brillannte
- brillantte
- brillatne
- brillnate
- brlilante
- brrillante
- rbillante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brillante - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brillante", 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).