brouillon
\bʁu.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“brouillon” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,069. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,069
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Premier jet de ce qu’on écrit d’abord sur le papier pour le mettre ensuite au net.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouillon · brouillon · French
brouillon · rank #20,069 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,069
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brosser
Nearest frequency peer: brosser (-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 « brouillon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Brendan
Brendan
79,935 corpus weight
- bro
bro
79,934 corpus weight
- brosser
brosser
79,933 corpus weight
- brouillon
brouillon
79,932 corpus weight
- buissons
buissons
79,931 corpus weight
- bulgares
bulgares
79,930 corpus weight
What this shows « brouillon » 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 | brouillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brouillon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around brouillon (IPA \bʁu.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,069 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brouillon, with forms such as "bbrouillon", "boruillon", and "broiullon". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "brouillons", "bouillon", "brouille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 brouillon, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Premier jet de ce qu’on écrit d’abord sur le papier pour le mettre ensuite au net.
- 2Le papier même sur lequel on a écrit le brouillon.
- 3Brouillard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brouillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En plus de sa machine arithmétique, la première contribution importante de Leibniz aurait été, aux yeux de Huygens, la quadrature arithmétique du cercle, dont Leibniz avait rédigé le premier brouillon en octobre 1674.
Un cahier de brouillons.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrouillon
- boruillon
- broiullon
- brouillno
- brouillonn
- brouiloln
- brouilon
- broulilon
- brrouillon
- bruoillon
- rbouillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brouillon - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).