branchent
\bʁɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“branchent” is uncommon French (frequency #84,579 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,579
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe brancher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-branchent · branchent · French
branchent · rank #84,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,579
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brancas
Nearest frequency peer: brancas (-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 « branchent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouffez
bouffez
15,425 corpus weight
- brancas
brancas
15,423 corpus weight
- branchent
branchent
15,422 corpus weight
- bredin
bredin
15,420 corpus weight
- Briare
Briare
15,418 corpus weight
- brito
brito
15,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « branchent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | branchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « branchent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
branchent is uncommon French at frequency #84,579 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for branchent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 branchent, spelled B-R-A-N-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe brancher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe brancher.
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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