breakdown
\ˈbɹeɪk.ˌdaʊn\
The verdict
“breakdown” is uncommon French (frequency #67,338 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,338
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Panne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-breakdown · breakdown · French
breakdown · rank #67,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,338
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bravement
Nearest frequency peer: bravement (-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 « breakdown »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bougeaient
bougeaient
32,667 corpus weight
- Boutros
Boutros
32,666 corpus weight
- brame
brame
32,665 corpus weight
- bravement
bravement
32,664 corpus weight
- breakdown
breakdown
32,663 corpus weight
- burden
burden
32,659 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « breakdown » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breakdown |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɹeɪk.ˌdaʊn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « breakdown » en français
Rare enough to double-check
breakdown is uncommon French at frequency #67,338 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbɹeɪk.ˌdaʊn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for breakdown, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 breakdown, spelled B-R-E-A-K-D-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Panne.
- 2Casse, action de casser.
- 3Décomposition, énumération, nomenclature, ventilation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breakdown appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
R.B.S. (Resource Breakdown Structure)
In order to set out an appropriate financial framework for the Funds it is necessary to set out the annual breakdown by Member State of global resources allocated under the Investment for jobs and growth goal and the European territorial cooperation goal (Interreg).
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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