brive
The verdict
“brive” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,224
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vivacité, rapidité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brive · brive · French
brive · rank #19,224 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,224
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH breaking
Nearest frequency peer: breaking (-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 « brive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boussole
boussole
80,780 corpus weight
- Brazzaville
Brazzaville
80,779 corpus weight
- breaking
breaking
80,778 corpus weight
- brive
brive
80,777 corpus weight
- brèves
brèves
80,776 corpus weight
- burns
burns
80,775 corpus weight
What this shows « brive » 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 | brive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around brive, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,224 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vivacité, rapidité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for brive, with forms such as "bbrive", "birve", and "briev". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brune", "Bruce", "brûlé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is brive, spelled B-R-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Vivacité, rapidité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et si nagierent tant a brive Que ils vinrent a l'autre rive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrive
- birve
- briev
- brivve
- brrive
- brvie
- rbive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brive - 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 "brive", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).