breaker
\bʁɛ.ke\
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
- boulimique
boulimique
46,833 corpus weight
- bourge
bourge
46,832 corpus weight
- Bourque
Bourque
46,831 corpus weight
- boutures
boutures
46,830 corpus weight
- breaker
breaker
46,829 corpus weight
- bump
bump
46,825 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « breaker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breaker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɛ.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « breaker » en français
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
- 1Remporter le jeu de service de son adversaire.
- 2Remporter le jeu de service de (son adversaire).
- 3Personne qui pratique le break.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how breaker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il hausse son niveau dès qu’il entrevoit une opportunité de breaker.
Synonyms
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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