brillants
\bʁi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“brillants” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,116
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de brillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brillants · brillants · French
brillants · rank #12,116 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,116
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brandon
Nearest frequency peer: brandon (-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 « brillants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boycott
boycott
87,887 corpus weight
- brandon
brandon
87,886 corpus weight
- brillants
brillants
87,885 corpus weight
- bâtons
bâtons
87,884 corpus weight
- Canadian
Canadian
87,883 corpus weight
- capitales
capitales
87,882 corpus weight
What this shows « brillants » 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 | brillants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brillants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around brillants (IPA \bʁi.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,116 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de brillant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for brillants, with forms such as "bbrillants", "birllants", and "brilalnts". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "brillent", "brûlants", "brillant", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is brillants, spelled B-R-I-L-L-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de brillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brillants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Francine s’amusait follement, elle avait maintenant les joues roses, les yeux brillants, et essayait de faire trembler ses épaules enfantines par un shimmy régulier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrillants
- birllants
- brilalnts
- brilants
- brillannts
- brillanst
- brillantss
- brillantts
- brillatns
- brillnats
- brlilants
- brrillants
- rbillants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brillants - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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