brandie
\bʁɑ̃.di\
The verdict
“brandie” is uncommon French (frequency #74,616 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,616
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de brandir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brandie · brandie · French
brandie · rank #74,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,616
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brancardier
Nearest frequency peer: brancardier (-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 « brandie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- brigadiers
brigadiers
25,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brandie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brandie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɑ̃.di\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brandie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brandie is uncommon French at frequency #74,616 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁɑ̃.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de brandir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for brandie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is brandie, spelled B-R-A-N-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de brandir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brandie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des chiens, toute une tribu de ces roquets ottomans qui tiennent du chacal et du matou sans maitre, dormaient tortillés en spirale, jetés de çà de là, pêle-mêle, ou campés à l’écart ; dérangés par un intrus coiffé d’un chapeau de haute forme, et noir, ils grognèrent ; mais une canne brandie et le Ouste auquel l’engeance a coutume d’obéir les incitèrent à…
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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