breaker

\bʁɛ.ke\

/\bʁɛ.ke\/ verb

The verdict

“breaker” is uncommon French (frequency #53,172 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,172
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remporter le jeu de service de son adversaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-breaker · breaker · French

breaker · rank #53,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,172
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH boutures

Nearest frequency peer: boutures (-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 « breaker »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « breaker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for breaker
PropertyValue
Headwordbreaker
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bʁɛ.ke\
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,172
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « breaker » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).breakertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « boutures » (#53,171), « Bourque » (#53,170), « bourge » (#53,169). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « breaker » est au #53,172. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

breaker is uncommon French at frequency #53,172 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁɛ.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for breaker in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is breaker, spelled B-R-E-A-K-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Remporter le jeu de service de son adversaire.
  2. 2
    Remporter le jeu de service de (son adversaire).
  3. 3
    Personne qui pratique le break.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how breaker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais il hausse son niveau dès qu’il entrevoit une opportunité de breaker.

Synonyms

faire le break

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 "breaker"?
"breaker" is spelled B-R-E-A-K-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁɛ.ke\.
What does "breaker" mean?
As a verb, "breaker" means: Remporter le jeu de service de son adversaire.
How do you pronounce "breaker"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "breaker" is \bʁɛ.ke\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "breaker" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "breaker", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list