brûlées
\bʁy.le\
The verdict
“brûlées” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,942. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,942
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de brûlé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brulees · brûlées · French
brûlées · rank #20,942 · 11 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,942
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH branlette
Nearest frequency peer: branlette (-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 « brûlées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bourreaux
bourreaux
79,062 corpus weight
- boursiers
boursiers
79,061 corpus weight
- branlette
branlette
79,060 corpus weight
- brûlées
brûlées
79,059 corpus weight
- buck
buck
79,058 corpus weight
- Byron
Byron
79,056 corpus weight
What this shows « brûlées » 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 | brûlées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁy.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brûlées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around brûlées (IPA \bʁy.le\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,942 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de brûlé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brûlées, with forms such as "bbrûlées", "brlûées", and "brrûlées". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "brûler", "bulles", "brutes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brûlées, spelled B-R-Û-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de brûlé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrûlées
- brlûées
- brrûlées
- brulees
- brûleés
- brûllées
- brûléess
- brûlése
- brûéles
- bûrlées
- rbûlées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brûlées - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).