bredouilles
\bʁə.duj\
The verdict
“bredouilles” is uncommon French (frequency #78,202 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,202
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bredouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bredouilles · bredouilles · French
bredouilles · rank #78,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,202
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bravent
Nearest frequency peer: bravent (-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 « bredouilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bower
bower
21,803 corpus weight
- boz
boz
21,802 corpus weight
- bravent
bravent
21,800 corpus weight
- bredouilles
bredouilles
21,799 corpus weight
- brenne
brenne
21,797 corpus weight
- briserait
briserait
21,796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bredouilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bredouilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁə.duj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bredouilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bredouilles is uncommon French at frequency #78,202 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁə.duj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bredouille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bredouilles, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 bredouilles, spelled B-R-E-D-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bredouille.
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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