brème
\bʁɛm\
The verdict
“brème” is uncommon French (frequency #88,419 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,419
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à des espèces de poissons osseux d’eau douce, de la famille des carpes, larges et plus plats que les carpes, et en particulier à la brème commune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-breme · brème · French
brème · rank #88,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,419
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bruncher
Nearest frequency peer: bruncher (-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 « brème »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brouillant
brouillant
11,585 corpus weight
- bruncher
bruncher
11,583 corpus weight
- brème
brème
11,582 corpus weight
- buissière
buissière
11,581 corpus weight
- Buonaparte
Buonaparte
11,580 corpus weight
- bursa
bursa
11,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brème » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brème » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brème is uncommon French at frequency #88,419 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for brème in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brème, spelled B-R-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à des espèces de poissons osseux d’eau douce, de la famille des carpes, larges et plus plats que les carpes, et en particulier à la brème commune.
- 2Brème de mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brème appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les poissons qu'on trouve dans la Charente sont la tanche, la truite, l’anguille, la plie, le barbeau, le chabot, l’âton, le dard, la brème, le goujon, l’ablette et l’écrevisse. Ceux qui remontent de la mer sont la lamproie, le meuil, qui s'arrêtent le plus ordinairement à Jarnac; la gathe, et rarement l’alose.
De temps en temps une grosse brème montait du fond et se retournait d’un coup brusque, large et brillante comme un plat d’étain.
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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