Brunei
\bʁy.nɛj\
The verdict
“Brunei” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,156. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,156
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit sultanat asiatique situé sur la rive nord-ouest de l’île de Bornéo, formé de deux territoires côtiers distincts frontaliers de la Malaisie. Sa capitale est Bandar Seri Begawan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brunei · Brunei · French
Brunei · rank #40,156 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,156
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH broyage
Nearest frequency peer: broyage (-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 « Brunei »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brocolis
brocolis
59,848 corpus weight
- browning
browning
59,847 corpus weight
- broyage
broyage
59,846 corpus weight
- Brunei
Brunei
59,845 corpus weight
- burundais
burundais
59,844 corpus weight
- bûcherons
bûcherons
59,843 corpus weight
What this shows « Brunei » 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 | Brunei |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁy.nɛj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Brunei »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Brunei (IPA \bʁy.nɛj\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,156 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit sultanat asiatique situé sur la rive nord-ouest de l’île de Bornéo, formé de deux territoires côtiers distincts frontaliers de la Malaisie. Sa capitale est Bandar Seri Begawan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Brunei, with forms such as "bbrunei", "brnuei", and "brrunei". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bruno", "brute", "bruns", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Brunei, spelled B-R-U-N-E-I.
Definition
- 1Petit sultanat asiatique situé sur la rive nord-ouest de l’île de Bornéo, formé de deux territoires côtiers distincts frontaliers de la Malaisie. Sa capitale est Bandar Seri Begawan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Brunei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hasards de mon dernier voyage m'avaient amené à Brunei, sur la côte septentrionale de Bornéo, et tout de suite mes correspondants m'avaient signalé une affaire possible à Sandakan, de l'autre côté des Bangueys.
II est entendu toutefois que les dispositions du présent paragraphe ne conféreront à aucune cour une compétence qui, immédiatement avant le Jour de la Malaisie, découlait d’une loi de l’État de Brunei.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrunei
- brnuei
- brrunei
- brueni
- brunie
- brunnei
- burnei
- rbunei
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Brunei - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).