brisant
\bʁi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“brisant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,259. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,259
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit des explosifs dotés d’une vitesse de détonation et d’un pouvoir de fragmentation très élevés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brisant · brisant · French
brisant · rank #29,259 · 11 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,259
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH branleur
Nearest frequency peer: branleur (-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 « brisant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Boulay
Boulay
70,745 corpus weight
- boutade
boutade
70,744 corpus weight
- branleur
branleur
70,743 corpus weight
- brisant
brisant
70,742 corpus weight
- bure
bure
70,740 corpus weight
- cabernet
cabernet
70,739 corpus weight
What this shows « brisant » 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 | brisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brisant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around brisant (IPA \bʁi.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,259 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se dit des explosifs dotés d’une vitesse de détonation et d’un pouvoir de fragmentation très élevés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brisant, with forms such as "bbrisant", "birsant", and "briasnt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Bryant", "brûlant", "bruyant", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brisant, spelled B-R-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Se dit des explosifs dotés d’une vitesse de détonation et d’un pouvoir de fragmentation très élevés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le TNT, les fulminates, la mélinite sont des explosifs brisants.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrisant
- birsant
- briasnt
- brisannt
- brisantt
- brisatn
- brisnat
- brissant
- brrisant
- brsiant
- rbisant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brisant - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).