breloque
\bʁə.lɔk\
The verdict
“breloque” is uncommon French (frequency #88,410 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,410
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet, curiosité de peu de valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-breloque · breloque · French
breloque · rank #88,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,410
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouleversera
Nearest frequency peer: bouleversera (-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 « breloque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bougeons
bougeons
11,595 corpus weight
- bouillonner
bouillonner
11,594 corpus weight
- bouleversera
bouleversera
11,593 corpus weight
- breloque
breloque
11,591 corpus weight
- Brignais
Brignais
11,589 corpus weight
- briscard
briscard
11,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « breloque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breloque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁə.lɔk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « breloque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
breloque is uncommon French at frequency #88,410 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁə.lɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for breloque, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is breloque, spelled B-R-E-L-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Objet, curiosité de peu de valeur.
- 2Cachet ou autre petit bijou qu’on attache aux chaînes de montre et aux bracelets.
- 3Médaille, décoration.
- 4Couille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breloque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet homme vend bien cher ses breloques.
Ainsi en peu de temps tu auras toutes ses breloques, ajouta-t-il en se frottant les mains, heureux de pouvoir spéculer sur le sentiment de sa fille.
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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