braquent
\bʁak\
The verdict
“braquent” is uncommon French (frequency #60,600 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,600
- 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 braquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braquent · braquent · French
braquent · rank #60,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,600
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH braquée
Nearest frequency peer: braquée (+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 « braquent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blâmes
blâmes
39,408 corpus weight
- braquent
braquent
39,401 corpus weight
- braquée
braquée
39,400 corpus weight
- bricks
bricks
39,399 corpus weight
- Briey
Briey
39,398 corpus weight
- brouettes
brouettes
39,396 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « braquent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « braquent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
braquent is uncommon French at frequency #60,600 among 4,251 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how braquent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Washington, caméras et téléphones se braquent sur un minuscule échantillon de l’astéroïde Bennu, censé permettre de mieux comprendre la formation de la vie sur Terre.
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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