brisée
\bʁi.ze\
The verdict
“brisée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,730. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,730
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rupture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brisee · brisée · French
brisée · rank #12,730 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,730
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boxeur
Nearest frequency peer: boxeur (-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 « brisée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blâmer
blâmer
87,274 corpus weight
- boxeur
boxeur
87,272 corpus weight
- brisée
brisée
87,271 corpus weight
- buenos
buenos
87,270 corpus weight
- butin
butin
87,269 corpus weight
- calcule
calcule
87,268 corpus weight
What this shows « brisée » 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 | brisée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brisée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around brisée (IPA \bʁi.ze\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,730 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for brisée, with forms such as "bbrisée", "birsée", and "brisee". 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, "brive", "briser", "brosse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is brisée, spelled B-R-I-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Rupture.
- 2Branche que le piqueur rompt à un arbre ou un arbuste et qu’il place dans son chemin pour reconnaître l’endroit où est la bête et où il l’a détournée. Désigne l'action, le fait de briser cette branche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brisée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout à coup au revers d'un buisson, je vis, sous les premières lueurs de l'aube, des traces sombres, toutes fraiches, qui venaient sur la friche et entraient au bois. […] Je pris mes repères avec beaucoup de soin me sembla-t-il, et pour la première brisée de ma carrière de piqueur, je cassai un bon coudrier qui se brisa sec dans le silence de l'aube.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrisée
- birsée
- brisee
- briseé
- brissée
- briése
- brrisée
- brsiée
- rbisée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brisée - 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 "brisée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).