balai-brosse
\ba.lɛ.bʁɔs\
The verdict
“balai-brosse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Balai constitué d’une brosse très dure fixée sur un manche à balai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balai-brosse · balai-brosse · French
balai-brosse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balai-brosse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ.bʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balai-brosse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balai-brosse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lɛ.bʁɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Balai constitué d’une brosse très dure fixée sur un manche à balai.".
balai-brosse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is balai-brosse, spelled B-A-L-A-I---B-R-O-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Balai constitué d’une brosse très dure fixée sur un manche à balai.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balai-brosse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Il y avait une fois, répète-t-elle, docile, un hôtel à Bade, au bord d’une petite rivière où il était défendu de cracher, entouré d’un gazon qu’on balayait au balai-brosse tous les matins…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.