broyage
\bʁwa.jaʒ\
The verdict
“broyage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,155
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réduction d’un solide en poudre ou d’une poudre en une poudre plus fine encore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broyage · broyage · French
broyage · rank #40,155 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,155
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH browning
Nearest frequency peer: browning (-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 « broyage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- burundais
burundais
59,844 corpus weight
What this shows « broyage » 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 | broyage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁwa.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « broyage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around broyage (IPA \bʁwa.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,155 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Réduction d’un solide en poudre ou d’une poudre en une poudre plus fine encore.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for broyage, with forms such as "bbroyage", "boryage", and "broayge". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "broyé", "bocage", "blocage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is broyage, spelled B-R-O-Y-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Réduction d’un solide en poudre ou d’une poudre en une poudre plus fine encore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how broyage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le broyage des fourrages grossiers a fait l’objet d’une analyse critique de Oreenhalgh et Wainman en 1972.
La plupart des oiseaux ne peuvent pas mastiquer leur nourriture et le gésier renferme des gastrolithes (des petits cailloux ingérés, les pierres du gésier, du gravier) responsables du broyage de ce qui est ingéré.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbroyage
- boryage
- broayge
- broyaeg
- broyagge
- broygae
- broyyage
- brroyage
- bryoage
- rboyage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of broyage - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).