brouter

\bʁu.te\

/\bʁu.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“brouter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,378. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,378
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paître, manger les bourgeons, les pousses et les feuilles des arbres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-brouter · brouter · French

brouter · rank #48,378 · 10 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,378
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bronzée

Nearest frequency peer: bronzée (-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 « brouter »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « brouter » 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).

brouter vs brute
71% similar
brouter vs buter
71% similar
brouter vs brûler
57% similar

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

Key facts for brouter
PropertyValue
Headwordbrouter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bʁu.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#48,378
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brouter »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).brouterse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bronzée » (#48,377), « bronche » (#48,376), « bunch » (#48,380). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brouter » est au #48,378. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around brouter (IPA \bʁu.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,378 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for brouter, with forms such as "bbrouter", "boruter", and "brotuer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "brute", "buter", "brûler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is brouter, spelled B-R-O-U-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Paître, manger les bourgeons, les pousses et les feuilles des arbres.
  2. 2
    Paître l’herbe, pacager.
  3. 3
    Manger.
  4. 4
    Sautiller en parlant de la scie ou du rabot, fonctionner de façon saccadée et irrégulière.
  5. 5
    Fatiguer, ennuyer.
  6. 6
    Pratiquer le cunnilingus ; cunnilinguer.
  7. 7
    Tomber par terre, raser le sol.
  8. 8
    Arnaquer en tant que brouteur, arnaquer sur Internet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La Girafe dans son pays natal, broute la sommité des arbres, préférant les plantes de la famille des mimosa qui y abondent.
  2. Sur ce rivage de légende, pour venir écouter le cantique des vagues, à l’ombre des tamaris et des buissons bleus, j’ai traversé l’île fiévreuse où les béliers broutent les touffes rondes des anganes, où les taureaux aux belles cornes, enfoncés jusqu’aux jarrets dans les paluzes, tendent leurs mufles baveux vers les plates solitudes.

Synonyms

ruperbara

This word in other languages

graze(English)ramonear(Español)grasen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbrouter
  • boruter
  • brotuer
  • brouetr
  • brouterr
  • broutre
  • broutter
  • brrouter
  • bruoter
  • rbouter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brouter - 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.

bbrouter1boruter2brotuer2brouetr2brouterr1broutre2broutter1brrouter1
Edit distance from "brouter"

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 "brouter"?
"brouter" is spelled B-R-O-U-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁu.te\.
What does "brouter" mean?
As a verb, "brouter" means: Paître, manger les bourgeons, les pousses et les feuilles des arbres.
What words are commonly confused with "brouter"?
"brouter" is commonly confused with "brute", "buter", "brûler". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brouter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brouter" is \bʁu.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brouter" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bronzée#48,377bronche#48,376Britain#48,374calling#48,383

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

brands10 variantscamélia10 variantsCanberra10 variantsbirmane10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list