brute
\bʁyt\
The verdict
“brute” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,937. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,937
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal considéré comme étant privé de raison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brute · brute · French
brute · rank #7,937 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,937
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourses
Nearest frequency peer: bourses (-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 « brute »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Australien
Australien
92,067 corpus weight
- boue
boue
92,066 corpus weight
- bourses
bourses
92,065 corpus weight
- brute
brute
92,064 corpus weight
- caire
caire
92,063 corpus weight
- call
call
92,062 corpus weight
What this shows « brute » 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 | brute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁyt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brute »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around brute (IPA \bʁyt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,937 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for brute, with forms such as "bbrute", "brrute", and "brtue". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "but", "bue", "buts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is brute, spelled B-R-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Animal considéré comme étant privé de raison.
- 2Bête parmi les plus dépourvues d’intelligence et de sensibilité.
- 3Homme qui n'a ni esprit ni raison.
- 4Personne qui impose une volonté par la violence.
- 5Personne qui maîtrise incontestablement un domaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Incroyable texte, écrit au début du XVIIᵉ siècle, qui, avec la répétition de « comme nous », avec la préférence du mot « pieds » au lieu de « pattes », avec l'idée qu'il existe des animaux de compagnie au côté des animaux de labeur, donne aux bêtes, qu'à cette époque on appelle aussi « brutes » – c'est le cas sous la plume de Descartes –, une dignité égal…
L’instinct qui tient lieu de raison aux brutes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrute
- brrute
- brtue
- bruet
- brutte
- burte
- rbute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brute - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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