brancardier
\bʁɑ̃.kaʁ.dje\
The verdict
“brancardier” is uncommon French (frequency #74,615 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,615
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui porte un brancard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brancardier · brancardier · French
brancardier · rank #74,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,615
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brandie
Nearest frequency peer: brandie (+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 « brancardier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bourbaki
Bourbaki
25,390 corpus weight
- Bourdeau
Bourdeau
25,389 corpus weight
- bovidés
bovidés
25,388 corpus weight
- brancardier
brancardier
25,386 corpus weight
- brandie
brandie
25,385 corpus weight
- Brentano
Brentano
25,383 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brancardier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brancardier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɑ̃.kaʁ.dje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brancardier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brancardier is uncommon French at frequency #74,615 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɑ̃.kaʁ.dje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for brancardier, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brancardier, spelled B-R-A-N-C-A-R-D-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui porte un brancard.
- 2Cheval attelé entre les deux brancards.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brancardier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bert fut désigné comme brancardier, et il aida à transporter les blessés dans le plus proche des vastes hôtels qui faisaient face à la rive canadienne.
Seuls les brancardiers sont prêts ; ils sont même partis : il faut les arrêter de force et les faire passer à l'arrière du bataillon.
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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