braconnier
\bʁa.kɔ.nje\
The verdict
“braconnier” is uncommon French (frequency #52,529 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,529
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui braconne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braconnier · braconnier · French
braconnier · rank #52,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,529
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourgmestres
Nearest frequency peer: bourgmestres (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « braconnier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boudins
boudins
47,475 corpus weight
- bouillonnant
bouillonnant
47,474 corpus weight
- bourgmestres
bourgmestres
47,473 corpus weight
- braconnier
braconnier
47,472 corpus weight
- bravant
bravant
47,471 corpus weight
- brodées
brodées
47,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « braconnier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braconnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.kɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « braconnier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
braconnier is uncommon French at frequency #52,529 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁa.kɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for braconnier in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 braconnier, spelled B-R-A-C-O-N-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui braconne.
- 2Celui qui tue beaucoup de gibier sans utilité. ^([2])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how braconnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il était la terreur des braconniers, qui le voyaient débusquer des taillis, au moment où ils glissaient dans leur poitrine le lièvre, qu’ils avaient pris au lacet
Tout à coup, deux coups de feu brisent le silence de midi.[…]. Puisque la chasse est fermée, il ne peut s'agir que de braconniers, […].
This word in other languages
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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