brouillard

\bʁu.jaʁ\

/\bʁu.jaʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“brouillard” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,282. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,282
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un amas de fines gouttelettes d'eau, ou parfois de fins cristaux de glace, plus ou moins épais, et ordinairement froid, qui obscurcit l’air.

Corpus desk

Index FR-brouillard · brouillard · French

brouillard · rank #9,282 · 13 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,282
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH branle

Nearest frequency peer: branle (-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 « brouillard »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « brouillard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

brouillard vs brouiller
80% similar
brouillard vs brouillage
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for brouillard
PropertyValue
Headwordbrouillard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁu.jaʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#9,282
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brouillard »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).brouillardse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « branle » (#9,281), « bénédiction » (#9,283), « barrières » (#9,279). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brouillard » est au #9,282. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around brouillard (IPA \bʁu.jaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,282 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for brouillard, with forms such as "bbrouillard", "boruillard", and "broiullard". 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, "brouiller", "brouillage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 brouillard, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un amas de fines gouttelettes d'eau, ou parfois de fins cristaux de glace, plus ou moins épais, et ordinairement froid, qui obscurcit l’air.
  2. 2
    Ciel présentant l’apparence du brouillard.
  3. 3
    Obscurité d’un discours, d’une situation, etc.
  4. 4
    Obscurcissement de la vue.
  5. 5
    Obscurcissement de l'entendement, de la compréhension.
  6. 6
    Livre sur lequel on prend note des opérations de banque ou de commerce, à mesure qu’elles se font, pour les reporter ensuite sur le livre-journal, sans surcharges ni ratures.
  7. 7
    Papier brouillard : Papier proche du papier buvard, servant soit au même usage, soit à filtrer les liquides.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how brouillard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ayant donc présupposé ceci, vous devez savoir que la manière selon laquelle s'engendre , & produit l'eau qui pleut, les brouillards, les bruines, les tonnerres, les neiges, & les autres choses que vous demandez, est telle: c'est qu'avec la chaleur du Soleil, & par son influence, & des Estoiles en leur mouvement se lèvent au dessus de la terre, de la Mer,…
  2. Un brouillard fumeux, ressemblant à celui de l’été indien, enveloppait toutes choses et ajoutait naturellement à mon incertitude.

Synonyms

brumebrouasbrouassebrouillonmain courante

Antonyms

dégagé

This word in other languages

fog(English)niebla(Español)Nebel(Deutsch)bruma(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbrouillard
  • boruillard
  • broiullard
  • brouilalrd
  • brouilard
  • brouilladr
  • brouillardd
  • brouillarrd
  • brouillrad
  • broulilard
  • brrouillard
  • bruoillard
  • rbouillard

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brouillard - 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.

bbrouillard1boruillard2broiullard2brouilalrd2brouilard1brouilladr2brouillardd1brouillarrd1
Edit distance from "brouillard"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brouillard"?
"brouillard" is spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁu.jaʁ\.
What does "brouillard" mean?
As a noun, "brouillard" means: Un amas de fines gouttelettes d'eau, ou parfois de fins cristaux de glace, plus ou moins épais, et ordinairement froid, qui obscurcit l’air.
What words are commonly confused with "brouillard"?
"brouillard" is commonly confused with "brouiller", "brouillage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brouillard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brouillard" is \bʁu.jaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brouillard" come from?
"brouillard" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brouillard", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chargement#9,288végétation#9,253fondations#9,317féministes#9,319

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

diplômés13 variantsdécroche13 variantsElisabeth13 variantsvigilance13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list