bressan
\bʁɛ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“bressan” is uncommon French (frequency #97,732 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,732
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la Bresse, ancienne province de France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bressan · bressan · French
bressan · rank #97,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,732
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brabançons
Nearest frequency peer: brabançons (-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 « bressan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bourrent
bourrent
2,274 corpus weight
- brabançons
brabançons
2,271 corpus weight
- bressan
bressan
2,269 corpus weight
- brieux
brieux
2,266 corpus weight
- bromance
bromance
2,265 corpus weight
- bronchiques
bronchiques
2,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bressan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bressan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁɛ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bressan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bressan is uncommon French at frequency #97,732 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁɛ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bressan in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bressan, spelled B-R-E-S-S-A-N.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la Bresse, ancienne province de France.
- 2Relatif à Brescia, commune italienne qui se situe en Lombardie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bressan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qui n’a vu, au temps jadis, une ménagère bressane manier sa poêle au long manche et faire sauter les matefaims sur un beau feu clair de cheminée ?
Le patois bressan.
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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