brousse
\bʁus\
The verdict
“brousse” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,139. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,139
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formation végétale constituée d’arbrisseaux et d’arbustes dans les pays tropicaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brousse · brousse · French
brousse · rank #18,139 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,139
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boîtier
Nearest frequency peer: boîtier (-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 « brousse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bordée
bordée
81,865 corpus weight
- bowling
bowling
81,864 corpus weight
- boîtier
boîtier
81,863 corpus weight
- brousse
brousse
81,862 corpus weight
- brûlent
brûlent
81,861 corpus weight
- Buffon
Buffon
81,860 corpus weight
What this shows « brousse » 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 | brousse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁus\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brousse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around brousse (IPA \bʁus\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,139 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for brousse, with forms such as "bbrousse", "borusse", and "brosuse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Brussel", "bosse", "bouse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 brousse, spelled B-R-O-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Formation végétale constituée d’arbrisseaux et d’arbustes dans les pays tropicaux.
- 2Pays couvert de broussailles.
- 3Lieu retiré, éloigné de tout.
- 4Espace non urbanisé.
- 5Espace non urbanisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brousse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une maigre brousse arborescente hérisse les parties basses du terrain — bouquets de daschi et de candili garnis de plus d'épines que de feuilles.
Les rebelles se sont réfugiés dans la brousse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrousse
- borusse
- brosuse
- brouse
- brouses
- brrousse
- bruosse
- rbousse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brousse - 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.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).