brûlure
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,260
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
brûlure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Impression qu'un corps très chaud ou très froid, une substance corrosive ou caustique, un frottement, un rayonnement ou encore un courant électrique font sur la peau ou sur quelque autre matière et... Pronounced \bʁy.lyʁ\. Often confused with bruyère and brûlures.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brûlure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁy.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brûlure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁy.lyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,260 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brûlure, with forms such as "bbrûlure", "brlûure", and "brrûlure". 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, "bruyère", "brûlures", "brûlé", 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 brûlure, spelled B-R-Û-L-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Impression qu'un corps très chaud ou très froid, une substance corrosive ou caustique, un frottement, un rayonnement ou encore un courant électrique font sur la peau ou sur quelque autre matière et qui va jusqu’à les altérer ou même jusqu’à les détruire partiellement.
- 2Sensation de chaleur excessive qu’on éprouve.
- 3Altérations produites sur les végétaux au printemps, soit par l’action du soleil, soit par l’effet de la gelée ou du vent.
- 4Maladie du mouton.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrûlure,brlûure,brrûlure,brulure,brûllure,brûlrue,brûluer,brûlurre,brûulre,bûrlure,rbûlure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brûlure
Misspelling Variants of "brûlure"
Frequency rank: #21,260 in French
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