browning
\bʁɔ.niŋ\
The verdict
“browning” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,154. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,154
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pistolet automatique de 7.65 mm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-browning · browning · French
browning · rank #40,154 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,154
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brocolis
Nearest frequency peer: brocolis (-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 « browning »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bricole
bricole
59,850 corpus weight
- brochet
brochet
59,849 corpus weight
- brocolis
brocolis
59,848 corpus weight
- browning
browning
59,847 corpus weight
- broyage
broyage
59,846 corpus weight
- Brunei
Brunei
59,845 corpus weight
What this shows « browning » 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 | browning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ.niŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « browning »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around browning (IPA \bʁɔ.niŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,154 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pistolet automatique de 7.65 mm.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for browning, with forms such as "bbrowning", "borwning", and "bronwing". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bowling", "brownie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is browning, spelled B-R-O-W-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Pistolet automatique de 7.65 mm.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how browning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma chère Lady Wynham, vous ne rougissez pas d’être la compatriote de Cromwell, qui fit trancher la tête de votre roi Charles Ier ?... Voulez-vous me dire en quoi la hache ou la guillotine valent mieux que les brownings de nos bourreaux ? … Nous avons fait plus de victimes ? Oui, mais nous sommes plus de cent millions de Russes. La proportion de rescapés r…
Il allait aux aguets d’un cri insolite ou d’un sanglot, prêt à monter d’immondes escaliers, tout en serrant dans une poche un browning de fort calibre ainsi qu’une lampe électrique qui projetait une lumière violente et glacée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrowning
- borwning
- bronwing
- browinng
- brownign
- browningg
- browninng
- brownnig
- brownning
- browwning
- brrowning
- brwoning
- rbowning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of browning - 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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).