briller
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,648
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
briller is aFrenchverb. It means: S’agiter, aller de-ci de-là, frétiller d’impatience. Pronounced \bʁi.je\. Often confused with briser and brûler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for briller is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁi.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,648 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for briller, with forms such as "bbriller", "birller", and "brilelr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "briser", "brûler", "brouiller", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is briller, spelled B-R-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1S’agiter, aller de-ci de-là, frétiller d’impatience.
- 2Émettre une lumière vive.
- 3Avoir de l’éclat, en parlant du visage humain ou du regard.
- 4Attirer et fixer agréablement l’attention.
- 5Exceller.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbriller,birller,brilelr,briler,brillerr,brillre,brliler,brriller,rbiller
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for briller
Misspelling Variants of "briller"
Frequency rank: #10,648 in French
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