brisent
\bʁiz\
The verdict
“brisent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,081
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe briser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brisent · brisent · French
brisent · rank #28,081 · 11 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,081
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bribes
Nearest frequency peer: bribes (-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 « brisent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bourgs
bourgs
71,923 corpus weight
- brasseur
brasseur
71,922 corpus weight
- bribes
bribes
71,921 corpus weight
- brisent
brisent
71,920 corpus weight
- broyer
broyer
71,919 corpus weight
- byzantin
byzantin
71,918 corpus weight
What this shows « brisent » 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 | brisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁiz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brisent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around brisent (IPA \bʁiz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,081 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brisent, with forms such as "bbrisent", "birsent", and "briesnt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "briser", "brisés", "brûlent", 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 brisent, spelled B-R-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe briser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe briser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La raison pour laquelle cette semence se désaile de cette manière, c’est que les ailes tiennent à cette graine par deux ressorts, qui se brisent et tombent par le gonflement des graines humectées.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrisent
- birsent
- briesnt
- brisennt
- brisentt
- brisetn
- brisnet
- brissent
- brrisent
- brsient
- rbisent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brisent - 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 "brisent", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).