brouillage
\bʁu.jaʒ\
The verdict
“brouillage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,778. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,778
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de brouiller, résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouillage · brouillage · French
brouillage · rank #42,778 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,778
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brignoles
Nearest frequency peer: Brignoles (-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 « brouillage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bourrage
bourrage
57,226 corpus weight
- branchement
branchement
57,225 corpus weight
- Brignoles
Brignoles
57,224 corpus weight
- brouillage
brouillage
57,223 corpus weight
- bucolique
bucolique
57,222 corpus weight
- Burberry
Burberry
57,221 corpus weight
What this shows « brouillage » 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 | brouillage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brouillage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around brouillage (IPA \bʁu.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,778 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brouillage, with forms such as "bbrouillage", "boruillage", and "broiullage". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "brouille", "brouillard", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brouillage, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de brouiller, résultat de cette action.
- 2Émission, réémission ou réflexion de signaux électromagnétiques perturbant le fonctionnement de moyens de détection ou de radiocommunication.
- 3Trouble apporté à la réception d’un signal utile par des phénomènes indésirables dus à la présence d’autres signaux ou de bruits se superposant à ce signal.
- 4Transformation du code source d’un programme destinée à le rendre incompréhensible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brouillage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Face au brouillage de l’organisation sociale accompagnant la fin de l’Empire romain d’Occident, les évêques entreprennent de définir localement (…), en s’appuyant sur les commentaires patristiques de la Bible, de nouvelles normes de fonctionnement social, …
Il écoute la radio sans cette nervosité qui m’agaçait : il se jetait sur un fauteuil, se levait, s’accrochait au bouton pour essayer d’éliminer le brouillage, jurait, se lamentait… Maintenant, la plupart du temps il rate les informations avec sérénité et se contente de ce que je lui en dis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrouillage
- boruillage
- broiullage
- brouilage
- brouilalge
- brouillaeg
- brouillagge
- brouillgae
- broulilage
- brrouillage
- bruoillage
- rbouillage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brouillage - 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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