brûler
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,635
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brûler is aFrenchverb. It means: Consumer, corroder ou endommager par le feu, ou par produits chimiques. Pronounced \bʁy.le\. It ranks #5,635 in French word frequency. Often confused with brune and brute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brûler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁy.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brûler is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁy.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,635 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for brûler, with forms such as "bbrûler", "brlûer", and "brrûler". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brune", "brute", "brume", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is brûler, spelled B-R-Û-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Consumer, corroder ou endommager par le feu, ou par produits chimiques.
- 2Faire du feu de quelque matière.
- 3Subir l’action trop vive ou trop prolongée du feu qui donne une couleur rousse ou noire et un goût désagréable aux mets.
- 4Échauffer excessivement, causer une violente chaleur, dessécher par une chaleur excessive.
- 5Échauffer excessivement, causer une violente chaleur, dessécher par une chaleur excessive.
- 6Être dévoré d’une passion pressante.
- 7Ignorer un obstacle ou une étape pour atteindre un objectif.
- 8Être consumé par le feu.
- 9Être fort chaud.
- 10Briller, luire.
- 11Être près d’un objectif, toucher au but.
- 12Subir le feu.
- 13Traverser une frontière illégalement au risque de mourir.
- 14Rendre insupportable le contact avec quelque chose ou le séjour dans un certain endroit.
- 15Utiliser un transport sans avoir de billet, sans payer. On retrouve cette acception dans des expressions comme brûler le dur (prendre le train ou le métro sans payer), brûler le bateau (naviguer clandestinement).
- 16Tuer d'un coup de feu.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrûler,brlûer,brrûler,bruler,brûelr,brûlerr,brûller,brûlre,bûrler,rbûler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brûler
Misspelling Variants of "brûler"
Frequency rank: #5,635 in French
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