braquet
\bʁa.kɛ\
The verdict
“braquet” is uncommon French (frequency #80,946 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,946
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapport entre le nombre de dents de la roue dentée du pédalier, appelée plateau et celui de la roue dentée du moyeu arrière, appelée pignon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braquet · braquet · French
braquet · rank #80,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,946
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brandissait
Nearest frequency peer: brandissait (-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 « braquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bourdonnais
bourdonnais
19,058 corpus weight
- Bourmont
Bourmont
19,057 corpus weight
- brandissait
brandissait
19,056 corpus weight
- braquet
braquet
19,055 corpus weight
- bred
bred
19,053 corpus weight
- Brien
Brien
19,052 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « braquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « braquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
braquet is uncommon French at frequency #80,946 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁa.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for braquet, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 braquet, spelled B-R-A-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Rapport entre le nombre de dents de la roue dentée du pédalier, appelée plateau et celui de la roue dentée du moyeu arrière, appelée pignon.
- 2Rythme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how braquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sauf dans les tournants, où la pente se raidit, il gardait un braquet moyen. Ainsi, le mouvement des jambes plus longues, pour une vitesse égale plus lent, le faisait paraître encore davantage à l’aise.
Busard retourna sa bicyclette et se mit à expliquer le principe des démultiplications, et comment on utilise le dérailleur et les braquets, en fonction de la pente, du vent, selon qu’on prend un virage à la corde ou sur le plus grand rayon, et aussi en rapport de l’attitude des adversaires et en tenant compte de sa propre fatigue.
This word in other languages
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "braquet"?
What does "braquet" mean?
How do you pronounce "braquet"?
What language does "braquet" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "braquet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).