brouillard
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,282
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
brouillard is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \bʁu.jaʁ\. It ranks #9,282 in French word frequency. Often confused with brouiller and brouillage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouillard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brouillard is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁu.jaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,282 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for brouillard, with forms such as "bbrouillard", "boruillard", and "broiullard". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "brouiller", "brouillage", 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 brouillard, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un amas de fines gouttelettes d'eau, ou parfois de fins cristaux de glace, plus ou moins épais, et ordinairement froid, qui obscurcit l’air.
- 2Ciel présentant l’apparence du brouillard.
- 3Obscurité d’un discours, d’une situation, etc.
- 4Obscurcissement de la vue.
- 5Obscurcissement de l'entendement, de la compréhension.
- 6Livre 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.
- 7Papier brouillard : Papier proche du papier buvard, servant soit au même usage, soit à filtrer les liquides.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrouillard,boruillard,broiullard,brouilalrd,brouilard,brouilladr,brouillardd,brouillarrd,brouillrad,broulilard,brrouillard,bruoillard,rbouillard
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brouillard
Misspelling Variants of "brouillard"
Frequency rank: #9,282 in French
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