brume
\bʁym\
The verdict
“brume” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,870
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brouillard avec une visibilité supérieure à un kilomètre, surtout en parlant des brouillards de mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brume · brume · French
brume · rank #14,870 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,870
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brochure
Nearest frequency peer: brochure (-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 « brume »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blanchiment
blanchiment
85,134 corpus weight
- boyer
boyer
85,133 corpus weight
- brochure
brochure
85,132 corpus weight
- brume
brume
85,131 corpus weight
- bruns
bruns
85,130 corpus weight
- BTP
BTP
85,129 corpus weight
What this shows « brume » 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 | brume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁym\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brume »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around brume (IPA \bʁym\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,870 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for brume, with forms such as "bbrume", "brmue", and "brrume". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bum", "bue", "brut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is brume, spelled B-R-U-M-E.
Definition
- 1Brouillard avec une visibilité supérieure à un kilomètre, surtout en parlant des brouillards de mer.
- 2Brouillard qui ne dépose aucune humidité.
- 3Ce qui empêche l’entendement ou la conscience d’une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brume appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes ces brumes ne tarderont pas à se résoudre en neige, et, pour peu que le vent se lève, nous pourrons bien être battus par quelque grosse tempête.
Toujours plane une brume sur cette mer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrume
- brmue
- brrume
- bruem
- brumme
- burme
- rbume
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brume - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).