brouiller

\bʁu.je\

/\bʁu.je\/ verb

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The verdict

“brouiller” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,259. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,259
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre pêle-mêle, mêler, mélanger.

Corpus desk

Index FR-brouiller · brouiller · French

brouiller · rank #21,259 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,259
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH brio

Nearest frequency peer: brio (-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 « brouiller »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « brouiller » 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).

brouiller vs brouillon
78% similar
brouiller vs briller
78% similar
brouiller vs bouille
78% similar

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

Key facts for brouiller
PropertyValue
Headwordbrouiller
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bʁu.je\
Letters9
Frequency rank#21,259
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brouiller »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.brouillerse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « brio » (#21,258), « brûlure » (#21,260), « Brieuc » (#21,257). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brouiller » est au #21,259. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around brouiller (IPA \bʁu.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,259 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brouiller, with forms such as "bbrouiller", "boruiller", and "broiuller". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "brouillon", "briller", "bouille", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is brouiller, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mettre pêle-mêle, mêler, mélanger.
  2. 2
    Troubler, déranger, altérer, en parlant de choses matérielles qui ne peuvent être mêlées.
  3. 3
    Bouleverser, confondre, troubler, en parlant de choses morales, ou des personnes.
  4. 4
    Mettre la désunion ou la mésintelligence entre des personnes.
  5. 5
    Mettre en dégoût.
  6. 6
    Mettre la désunion, la mésintelligence entre des personnes qui vivaient bien ensemble.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Pourquoi ce bœuf impassible, et qui ne rumine même pas, semble-t-il attendre, pour ne pas brouiller l’herbe française avec l’herbe allemande ?
  2. Voulez-vous donc laisser au gibier le temps de brouiller la voie ? Donnez du cor, mordious !

This word in other languages

upset(English)revolver(Español)perturbar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbrouiller
  • boruiller
  • broiuller
  • brouilelr
  • brouiler
  • brouillerr
  • brouillre
  • brouliler
  • brrouiller
  • bruoiller
  • rbouiller

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brouiller - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bbrouiller1boruiller2broiuller2brouilelr2brouiler1brouillerr1brouillre2brouliler2
Edit distance from "brouiller"

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 "brouiller"?
"brouiller" is spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁu.je\.
What does "brouiller" mean?
As a verb, "brouiller" means: Mettre pêle-mêle, mêler, mélanger.
What words are commonly confused with "brouiller"?
"brouiller" is commonly confused with "brouillon", "briller", "bouille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brouiller"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brouiller" is \bʁu.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brouiller" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bonnement#21,252collusion#21,266consommés#21,275constatés#21,277

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

brûlure11 variantschaussette11 variantscloutier11 variantsbouquets11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list