bredin
\bʁə.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“bredin” is uncommon French (frequency #84,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,581
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Simple d’esprit, idiot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bredin · bredin · French
bredin · rank #84,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,581
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH branchent
Nearest frequency peer: branchent (-2 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 « bredin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouffez
bouffez
15,425 corpus weight
- brancas
brancas
15,423 corpus weight
- branchent
branchent
15,422 corpus weight
- bredin
bredin
15,420 corpus weight
- Briare
Briare
15,418 corpus weight
- brito
brito
15,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bredin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bredin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁə.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bredin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bredin is uncommon French at frequency #84,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁə.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Simple d’esprit, idiot.".
bredin has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bredin, spelled B-R-E-D-I-N.
Definition
- 1Simple d’esprit, idiot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bredin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et les bergères de rire sans façon : « Sont-ils bredins, ces bourgeois ! ... ils cherchent des villes à la campagne ! ... sont-ils bredins ! »
À peine ses malles défaites, ma mère s’est coulée à la maison de retraite dans une douce intermittence. Égarée le plus souvent mais gentiment bredine, insoucieuse de tout ce qui n’est pas le plaisir, le tracas du moment.
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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