bris
\bʁi\
The verdict
“bris” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,875
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rupture faite, le plus souvent avec violence, d’un scellé, d’une porte fermée, d’une clôture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bris · bris · French
bris · rank #21,875 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,875
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brel
Nearest frequency peer: Brel (-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 « bris »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boot
boot
78,129 corpus weight
- bouchées
bouchées
78,128 corpus weight
- Brel
Brel
78,127 corpus weight
- bris
bris
78,126 corpus weight
- Britney
Britney
78,125 corpus weight
- bronzage
bronzage
78,124 corpus weight
What this shows « bris » 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 | bris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bris »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bris (IPA \bʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,875 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bris, with forms such as "bbris", "birs", and "briss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BS", "bus", "BTS", 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bris, spelled B-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Rupture faite, le plus souvent avec violence, d’un scellé, d’une porte fermée, d’une clôture.
- 2Interruption.
- 3Pièces d’un navire, d’une embarcation qui s’est défoncée, brisée en donnant contre les rochers ou sur les bancs.
- 4Bande de fer fixant une porte sur ses gonds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ancien boxeur Dave Hilton a de nouveau comparu, mercredi matin, au palais de justice de Montréal, pour bris de conditions.
Bris de scellés !… la justice ne badine pas avec les farces de ce calibre-là…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbris
- birs
- briss
- brris
- brsi
- rbis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bris - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).