brioche
\bʁi.jɔʃ\
The verdict
“brioche” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,552
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Viennoiserie à pâte levée faite à base de farine, d'œufs, de lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brioche · brioche · French
brioche · rank #21,552 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,552
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brigadier
Nearest frequency peer: brigadier (-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 « brioche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brand
brand
78,452 corpus weight
- Brent
Brent
78,451 corpus weight
- brigadier
brigadier
78,450 corpus weight
- brioche
brioche
78,449 corpus weight
- bristol
bristol
78,448 corpus weight
- brochures
brochures
78,447 corpus weight
What this shows « brioche » 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 | brioche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.jɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brioche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around brioche (IPA \bʁi.jɔʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,552 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for brioche, with forms such as "bbrioche", "biroche", and "bricohe". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "broche", "broches", "brochet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brioche, spelled B-R-I-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Viennoiserie à pâte levée faite à base de farine, d'œufs, de lait.
- 2Gaucherie, bévue, boulette.
- 3Ventre, bide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brioche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Commander des brioches à un pâtissier.
S’ils n’ont pas de pain, qu’ils mangent de la brioche, mot attribué à Marie-Antoinette.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrioche
- biroche
- bricohe
- briocche
- brioceh
- briochhe
- briohce
- broiche
- brrioche
- rbioche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brioche - 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 "brioche", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).