brunch
\bʁœnʃ\
The verdict
“brunch” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,123
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repas tardif du matin, associant les aliments du petit déjeuner (pain, gâteaux…) à des aliments pris habituellement au déjeuner (viandes, salades…).
Corpus desk
Index FR-brunch · brunch · French
brunch · rank #23,123 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,123
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouscule
Nearest frequency peer: bouscule (-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 « brunch »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Blum
Blum
76,881 corpus weight
- bouscule
bouscule
76,879 corpus weight
- brunch
brunch
76,878 corpus weight
- burgers
burgers
76,877 corpus weight
- cabriolet
cabriolet
76,876 corpus weight
- caille
caille
76,875 corpus weight
What this shows « brunch » 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 | brunch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁœnʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brunch »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around brunch (IPA \bʁœnʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,123 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Repas tardif du matin, associant les aliments du petit déjeuner (pain, gâteaux…) à des aliments pris habituellement au déjeuner (viandes, salades…).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for brunch, with forms such as "bbrunch", "brnuch", and "brrunch". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Buch", "bruno", "brune", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is brunch, spelled B-R-U-N-C-H.
Definition
- 1Repas tardif du matin, associant les aliments du petit déjeuner (pain, gâteaux…) à des aliments pris habituellement au déjeuner (viandes, salades…).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brunch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela commençait par des brunches en plein air, sur les pelouses des fraternités, avec des tentes de toiles striées de vert et blanc, dressées au sommet des pentes qui, à l’arrière des grandes demeures, dominaient les vallons voisins.
Chloé rappela à son petit frère qu’un brunch, c’était un « super grand » petit-déjeuner, où on mangeait beaucoup parce qu’on ne remangeait plus à midi.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrunch
- brnuch
- brrunch
- brucnh
- bruncch
- brunchh
- brunhc
- brunnch
- burnch
- rbunch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brunch - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).