British
\bʁi.tiʃ\
The verdict
“British” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,122
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Britannique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-british · British · French
British · rank #10,122 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,122
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulangerie
Nearest frequency peer: boulangerie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “British”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bin
bin
89,882 corpus weight
- blogs
blogs
89,881 corpus weight
- boulangerie
boulangerie
89,880 corpus weight
- British
British
89,879 corpus weight
- burger
burger
89,878 corpus weight
- chaudes
chaudes
89,877 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “British” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | British |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.tiʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “British” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around British (IPA \bʁi.tiʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,122 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Britannique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for British, with forms such as "bbritish", "birtish", and "briitsh". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is British, spelled B-R-I-T-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Britannique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how British appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le désert tu trouves un macchabée en gorge que tu ne peux pas identifier : on lui fouille les poches. Quand on trouve un ouvre-boîtes, c’est un British, et quand c'est un tire-bouchon, c’est un Français.
Et puis, je suis tanné d’entendre, toutes les fois qu’on met en scène un Anglais ou un British, cet invraisemblable accent si artificiel que les oreilles m’en chauffent très rapidement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbritish
- birtish
- briitsh
- britihs
- britishh
- britissh
- britsih
- brittish
- brritish
- brtiish
- rbitish
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of British - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "British", 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).
What to do next
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- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,122 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.