Breil
\bʁɛj\
The verdict
“Breil” is uncommon French (frequency #64,287 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,287
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Maine-et-Loire intégrée à la commune de Noyant-Villages en décembre 2016.
Corpus desk
Index FR-breil · Breil · French
Breil · rank #64,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,287
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH breuvages
Nearest frequency peer: breuvages (+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 « Breil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bozon
bozon
35,716 corpus weight
- Breil
Breil
35,714 corpus weight
- breuvages
breuvages
35,713 corpus weight
- bricoleurs
bricoleurs
35,712 corpus weight
- bridée
bridée
35,711 corpus weight
- brode
brode
35,710 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Breil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Breil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Breil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Breil is uncommon French at frequency #64,287 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bʁɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Breil in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Breil, spelled B-R-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Maine-et-Loire intégrée à la commune de Noyant-Villages en décembre 2016.
- 2Hameau de Perloz.
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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