briquet
\bʁi.kɛ\
The verdict
“briquet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,768. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,768
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite pièce d’acier dont on se servait pour tirer du feu d’un silex.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briquet · briquet · French
briquet · rank #19,768 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,768
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boutin
Nearest frequency peer: boutin (-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 « briquet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boulettes
boulettes
80,236 corpus weight
- bourdon
bourdon
80,235 corpus weight
- boutin
boutin
80,234 corpus weight
- briquet
briquet
80,233 corpus weight
- brisés
brisés
80,232 corpus weight
- broche
broche
80,231 corpus weight
What this shows « briquet » 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 | briquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « briquet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around briquet (IPA \bʁi.kɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,768 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for briquet, with forms such as "bbriquet", "birquet", and "briqeut". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "brique", "braque", "brigue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is briquet, spelled B-R-I-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petite pièce d’acier dont on se servait pour tirer du feu d’un silex.
- 2L’un des divers appareils au moyen desquels on obtient du feu.
- 3Collation que l’on emportait pour aller travailler.
- 4Charnière ayant un double axe d'articulation. (On dit aussi charnière à briquet).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how briquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit : — Je n’ai pas de plume, Je suis dans mon lit. Va chez la voisine, Je crois qu’elle y est Car dans sa cuisine, On bat le briquet.
Sur le perron, il m’offrit un cigare et me tendit la flamme d’un briquet électrique. — C’est très commode, me dit-il. Et il m’en exposa clairement la théorie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbriquet
- birquet
- briqeut
- briqquet
- briquett
- briqute
- briuqet
- brqiuet
- brriquet
- rbiquet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of briquet - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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).