brelan
\bʁə.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“brelan” is uncommon French (frequency #71,309 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,309
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de cartes où l’on ne donne que trois cartes à chaque joueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brelan · brelan · French
brelan · rank #71,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,309
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH breakdance
Nearest frequency peer: breakdance (-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 « brelan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bourgueil
Bourgueil
28,696 corpus weight
- boutonne
boutonne
28,695 corpus weight
- brahmanes
brahmanes
28,694 corpus weight
- breakdance
breakdance
28,693 corpus weight
- brelan
brelan
28,692 corpus weight
- brocanteur
brocanteur
28,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brelan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « brelan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brelan is uncommon French at frequency #71,309 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁə.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brelan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jouer au brelan. — Caver au brelan.
Si deux joueurs abattent un brelan, celui de la valeur la plus haute l’emporte. Celui toutefois, qui a la chance d’obtenir un brelan de Valets, dénommé le favori, l’emporte sur tous les autres brelans, même ceux des As, des Rois ou des Dames.
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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