brusquer
\bʁys.ke\
The verdict
“brusquer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,685
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traiter d’une manière brusque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brusquer · brusquer · French
brusquer · rank #41,685 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,685
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brancard
Nearest frequency peer: brancard (-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 « brusquer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Boubacar
Boubacar
58,320 corpus weight
- bourguignon…
bourguignonne
58,319 corpus weight
- boxes
boxes
58,318 corpus weight
- brancard
brancard
58,317 corpus weight
- brusquer
brusquer
58,316 corpus weight
- bulbes
bulbes
58,314 corpus weight
What this shows « brusquer » 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 | brusquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁys.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brusquer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around brusquer (IPA \bʁys.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,685 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brusquer, with forms such as "bbrusquer", "brrusquer", and "brsuquer". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "brusque", "braquer", "Bousquet", 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 brusquer, spelled B-R-U-S-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Traiter d’une manière brusque.
- 2Précipiter les événements avant le temps voulu.
- 3L'emporter d’emblée.
- 4Chauffer un navire pour le caréner. ^([2])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brusquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un homme grossier, il brusque tout le monde.
Il a brusqué son affaire, il l’a faite vite, sans préparation, sans ménagement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrusquer
- brrusquer
- brsuquer
- bruqsuer
- brusqeur
- brusqquer
- brusquerr
- brusqure
- brussquer
- brusuqer
- bursquer
- rbusquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brusquer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brusquer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).