Brains
\bʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“Brains” is uncommon French (frequency #90,484 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,484
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brains · Brains · French
Brains · rank #90,484 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,484
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brachet
Nearest frequency peer: Brachet (-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 « Brains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- botton
botton
9,521 corpus weight
- Brachet
Brachet
9,518 corpus weight
- Brains
Brains
9,517 corpus weight
- brasero
brasero
9,516 corpus weight
- bretteur
bretteur
9,514 corpus weight
- brig
brig
9,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Brains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Brains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Brains is uncommon French at frequency #90,484 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Brains in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Brains, spelled B-R-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
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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