brouiller les cartes
\bʁu.je le kaʁt\
The verdict
“brouiller les cartes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Embrouiller, confusionner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouiller les cartes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁu.je le kaʁt\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brouiller les cartes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
brouiller les cartes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁu.je le kaʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Embrouiller, confusionner.".
brouiller les cartes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brouiller les cartes, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-A-R-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Embrouiller, confusionner.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “brouiller les cartes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-A-R-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.