brea
\ˈbɾe.a\
The verdict
“brea” is uncommon French (frequency #77,312 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,312
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de brear.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brea · brea · French
brea · rank #77,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,312
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bradycardie
Nearest frequency peer: bradycardie (-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 « brea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boulodrome
boulodrome
22,694 corpus weight
- bousculades
bousculades
22,692 corpus weight
- bradycardie
bradycardie
22,690 corpus weight
- brea
brea
22,689 corpus weight
- brought
brought
22,686 corpus weight
- bui
bui
22,684 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbɾe.a\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brea is uncommon French at frequency #77,312 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈbɾe.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for brea in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is brea, spelled B-R-E-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de brear.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) de l’impératif de brear.
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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