brutale
\bʁy.tal\
The verdict
“brutale” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,004. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,004
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de brutal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brutale · brutale · French
brutale · rank #11,004 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,004
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bruges
Nearest frequency peer: Bruges (-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 « brutale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bot
bot
88,999 corpus weight
- Bruges
Bruges
88,998 corpus weight
- brutale
brutale
88,997 corpus weight
- cabinets
cabinets
88,995 corpus weight
- calvaire
calvaire
88,994 corpus weight
- capsule
capsule
88,993 corpus weight
What this shows « brutale » 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 | brutale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁy.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brutale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around brutale (IPA \bʁy.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,004 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de brutal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for brutale, with forms such as "bbrutale", "brrutale", and "brtuale". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "brute", "brutaux", "brutales", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brutale, spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de brutal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brutale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ni euphémisme ni vulgarité brutale (procédé qu’Apollinaire n’hésite pas à pratiquer dans ses écrits pornographiques), le double sens (qu’on se gardera de confondre uniment avec le calembour potachique), scatologise par le seul morcellement qu’il impose aux mots.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrutale
- brrutale
- brtuale
- bruatle
- brutael
- brutalle
- brutlae
- bruttale
- burtale
- rbutale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brutale - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).