bruns
\bʁœ̃\
The verdict
“bruns” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,871. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,871
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de brun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bruns · bruns · French
bruns · rank #14,871 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,871
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brume
Nearest frequency peer: brume (-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 « bruns »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- campement
campement
85,127 corpus weight
What this shows « bruns » 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 | bruns |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁœ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bruns »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bruns (IPA \bʁœ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,871 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de brun.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bruns, with forms such as "bbruns", "brnus", and "brruns". 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, "bus", "bun", "buts", 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. The correct French form is bruns, spelled B-R-U-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de brun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bruns appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On rencontre ici des sols podzoliques lessivés qui occupent les portions les plus hautes et les plus anciennes des reliefs du delta, ensuite des sols podzoliques amphigléiques ayant la nappe phréatique à 1,5-3 m, des sols bruns de forêt podzolisés, la suite comprenant une série de sols alluviaux bruns faiblement débasifiés et la série des sols gléiques de…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbruns
- brnus
- brruns
- brunns
- brunss
- brusn
- rbuns
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bruns - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).