brûlent
\bʁyl\
The verdict
“brûlent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,140. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,140
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe brûler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brulent · brûlent · French
brûlent · rank #18,140 · 12 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,140
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brousse
Nearest frequency peer: brousse (-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 « brûlent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- cadenas
cadenas
81,859 corpus weight
What this shows « brûlent » 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 | brûlent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brûlent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around brûlent (IPA \bʁyl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,140 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brûlent, with forms such as "bbrûlent", "brlûent", and "brrûlent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "brûler", "brunet", "brûlez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brûlent, spelled B-R-Û-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe brûler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe brûler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brûlent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il connait mal ses compatriotes, pas du tout les Noirs et les Arabes, il a rencontré des Juifs candides et désintéressés, il n’a pas parcouru assez de pays pour décider quelle nation possède les paysages les plus contrastés, il ne lui semble pas tellement logique, aujourd’hui, que les gouvernements brûlent ou coulent au fond des mers des récoltes entiè…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrûlent
- brlûent
- brrûlent
- brulent
- brûelnt
- brûlennt
- brûlentt
- brûletn
- brûllent
- brûlnet
- bûrlent
- rbûlent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brûlent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).