braquent
\bʁak\
The verdict
“braquent” is uncommon French (frequency #60,600 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,600
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe braquer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braquent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “braquent” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
braquent is uncommon French at frequency #60,600 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
braquent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is braquent, spelled B-R-A-Q-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe braquer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent 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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Using “braquent”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-A-Q-U-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁak\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.