bractées
\bʁak.te\
The verdict
“bractées” is uncommon French (frequency #58,464 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,464
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bractée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bractees · bractées · French
bractées · rank #58,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,464
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouter
Nearest frequency peer: bouter (-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 « bractées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bourrasque
bourrasque
41,540 corpus weight
- bous
bous
41,539 corpus weight
- bouter
bouter
41,538 corpus weight
- bractées
bractées
41,537 corpus weight
- Brioude
Brioude
41,535 corpus weight
- brokers
brokers
41,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bractées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bractées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁak.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bractées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bractées is uncommon French at frequency #58,464 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁak.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bractée.".
bractées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bractées, spelled B-R-A-C-T-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bractée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bractées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Œillet des Chartreux (Dianthus Carthusianorum L.), à racine presque ligneuse; le calicule, formé de nombreuses écailles brunâtres ou rougeâtres, est entouré d’un involucre constitué par deux bractées longuement aristées.
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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