brasero
\bʁa.ze.ʁo\
The verdict
“brasero” is uncommon French (frequency #90,485 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,485
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de braséro.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brasero · brasero · French
brasero · rank #90,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,485
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brains
Nearest frequency peer: Brains (-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 « brasero »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- botton
botton
9,521 corpus weight
- Brachet
Brachet
9,518 corpus weight
- Brains
Brains
9,517 corpus weight
- brasero
brasero
9,516 corpus weight
- bretteur
bretteur
9,514 corpus weight
- brig
brig
9,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brasero » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brasero |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.ze.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brasero » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brasero is uncommon French at frequency #90,485 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁa.ze.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de braséro.".
brasero has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brasero, spelled B-R-A-S-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Variante de braséro.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brasero appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le brasero est une grande bassine de cuivre jaune posée sur un trépied et remplie de braise ou de petits noyaux allumés et recouverts de cendre fine, qui font un feu doux. Le brasero remplace en Espagne les cheminées, qui sont fort rares.
[…] ; car l’averse continue, torrentielle, et la nuit est si froide et si noire… D’ailleurs les environs ne sont plus qu’un vaste bourbier, et, grâce au thé et au brasero, je me sens si bien à l’aise dans la tente du chîkh que je consens volontiers à y rester.
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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