Bretteville
\bʁɛt.vil\
The verdict
“Bretteville” is uncommon French (frequency #81,832 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,832
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française du département de la Manche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bretteville · Bretteville · French
Bretteville · rank #81,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,832
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brassant
Nearest frequency peer: brassant (-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 « Bretteville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- branlettes
branlettes
18,172 corpus weight
- Brassac
Brassac
18,171 corpus weight
- brassant
brassant
18,170 corpus weight
- Bretteville
Bretteville
18,169 corpus weight
- bricolages
bricolages
18,168 corpus weight
- Briois
Briois
18,167 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bretteville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bretteville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛt.vil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bretteville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bretteville is uncommon French at frequency #81,832 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bʁɛt.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bretteville, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Bretteville, spelled B-R-E-T-T-E-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française du département de la Manche.
- 2Ancien nom de la commune française Bretteville-du-Grand-Caux.
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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