brelan
\bʁə.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“brelan” is an uncommon French word, ranked #71,309 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #71,309
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jeu de cartes où l’on ne donne que trois cartes à chaque joueur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brelan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁə.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brelan” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brelan is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁə.lɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #71,309 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
brelan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 brelan, spelled B-R-E-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Jeu de cartes où l’on ne donne que trois cartes à chaque joueur.
- 2Trois cartes semblables détenues par un joueur dans ce jeu.
- 3Trois cartes semblables détenues par un joueur dans d’autres jeux de cartes.
- 4Groupe de trois, trio.
- 5Lieu où l’on joue habituellement, table à jeu.
This word in other languages
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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Using “brelan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-E-L-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.