briser
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,528
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
briser is aFrenchverb. It means: Rompre ; casser en plusieurs morceaux. Pronounced \bʁi.ze\. It ranks #5,528 in French word frequency. Often confused with brive and brûler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for briser is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁi.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,528 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for briser, with forms such as "bbriser", "birser", and "briesr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brive", "brûler", "brisés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is briser, spelled B-R-I-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rompre ; casser en plusieurs morceaux.
- 2Interrompre brusquement ; casser l’essor, la lancée.
- 3Délivrer ; rompre une domination.
- 4Anéantir ; abattre moralement.
- 5Se dit des rayons lumineux dont la direction rectiligne change ou paraît changer soudainement comme si elle se brisait au point d’inflexion.
- 6Fatiguer, incommoder, harasser par une agitation trop rude.
- 7Modifier, ajouter ou supprimer une pièce d’armoiries à l’écu des armes d’une maison, afin de distinguer les cadets, les bâtards.
- 8S’arrêter, ne pas aller plus loin.
- 9ou Déferler ; devenir de l'écume.
- 10Tomber en panne.
- 11Se rompre, se mettre en pièces.
- 12à cette pensée mon cœur se brise. - Tous leurs efforts vinrent se briser contre cet obstacle.
- 13Certains ouvrages de fer et de bois composés de diverses pièces jointes, de manière à pouvoir aisément se plier, s’allonger, se raccourcir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbriser,birser,briesr,briserr,brisre,brisser,brriser,brsier,rbiser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for briser
Misspelling Variants of "briser"
Frequency rank: #5,528 in French
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