Brasillach
\bʁa.zi.jak\
The verdict
“Brasillach” is uncommon French (frequency #86,481 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,481
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille surtout connu pour Robert Brasillach (1909-1945).
Corpus desk
Index FR-brasillach · Brasillach · French
Brasillach · rank #86,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,481
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH braquant
Nearest frequency peer: braquant (-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 « Brasillach »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- branchant
branchant
13,522 corpus weight
- braquant
braquant
13,521 corpus weight
- Brasillach
Brasillach
13,520 corpus weight
- Brathwaite
Brathwaite
13,519 corpus weight
- Bren
Bren
13,518 corpus weight
- bres
bres
13,517 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Brasillach » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brasillach |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.zi.jak\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Brasillach » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Brasillach is uncommon French at frequency #86,481 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bʁa.zi.jak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille surtout connu pour Robert Brasillach (1909-1945).".
Brasillach doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Brasillach, spelled B-R-A-S-I-L-L-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille surtout connu pour Robert Brasillach (1909-1945).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brasillach appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mauriac avait été insulté et calomnié par Brasillach, mais il va prendre sa défense et tenter de lui éviter la condamnation à mort.
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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