brillent
\bʁij\
The verdict
“brillent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,654. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,654
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe briller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brillent · brillent · French
brillent · rank #20,654 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,654
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brasse
Nearest frequency peer: brasse (-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 « brillent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouleverser
bouleverser
79,350 corpus weight
- brasse
brasse
79,348 corpus weight
- brillent
brillent
79,347 corpus weight
- Bucarest
Bucarest
79,346 corpus weight
- buddy
buddy
79,345 corpus weight
- cachemire
cachemire
79,344 corpus weight
What this shows « brillent » 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 | brillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brillent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around brillent (IPA \bʁij\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,654 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brillent, with forms such as "bbrillent", "birllent", and "brilelnt". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "briller", "brûlent", "brisent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brillent, spelled B-R-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe briller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe briller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brillent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne vous contentez point de regarder les grandeurs humaines comme ces éclairs qui brillent, qui sont accompagnés de beaucoup de bruit, mais qui s’éteignent au moment même qu’ils se montrent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrillent
- birllent
- brilelnt
- brilent
- brillennt
- brillentt
- brilletn
- brillnet
- brlilent
- brrillent
- rbillent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brillent - 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 "brillent", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).