bretteur
\bʁɛ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“bretteur” is uncommon French (frequency #90,487 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,487
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui aime à se battre à l’épée, à ferrailler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bretteur · bretteur · French
bretteur · rank #90,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,487
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brig
Nearest frequency peer: brig (+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 « bretteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brachet
Brachet
9,518 corpus weight
- Brains
Brains
9,517 corpus weight
- brasero
brasero
9,516 corpus weight
- bretteur
bretteur
9,514 corpus weight
- brig
brig
9,513 corpus weight
- Brosseau
Brosseau
9,510 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bretteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bretteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bretteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bretteur is uncommon French at frequency #90,487 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɛ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bretteur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bretteur, spelled B-R-E-T-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui aime à se battre à l’épée, à ferrailler.
- 2Celui qui se bat avec les idées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bretteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais tu étais cadet, et sous l’ancien droit, le patrimoine dont tu as eu la moitié appartenait entièrement à ton frère aîné. […]. Si la Constituante n'avait passé un trait de plume sur cet article de la loi, tu serais à l’heure qu'il est de toute nécessité chevalier d’industrie, barnabote, aventurier, abbé, bretteur, coureur de ruelles.
Personne ne se permettait de railler Augereau [1757-1816] sur cet article, car on savait qu'il était grand bretteur, très brave, et avait fait mettre les pouces au célèbre Saint-Georges [1745-1799], la plus forte lame de France.
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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