braquées
\bʁa.ke\
The verdict
“braquées” is uncommon French (frequency #94,557 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,557
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe braquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braquees · braquées · French
braquées · rank #94,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,557
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brande
Nearest frequency peer: brande (-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 « braquées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouilles
bouilles
5,448 corpus weight
- boulange
boulange
5,447 corpus weight
- brande
brande
5,445 corpus weight
- braquées
braquées
5,444 corpus weight
- bridger
bridger
5,442 corpus weight
- brilles
brilles
5,441 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « braquées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braquées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁa.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « braquées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
braquées is uncommon French at frequency #94,557 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁa.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe braquer.".
braquées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is braquées, spelled B-R-A-Q-U-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe braquer.
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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