bretzel
\bʁɛt.sɛl\
The verdict
“bretzel” is uncommon French (frequency #57,126 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,126
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Biscuit salé à base de pâte de brioche, spécialité d’Alsace et d’Allemagne en forme de gros nœud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bretzel · bretzel · French
bretzel · rank #57,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,126
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brill
Nearest frequency peer: Brill (+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 « bretzel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boutonneux
boutonneux
42,878 corpus weight
- braz
braz
42,877 corpus weight
- bretzel
bretzel
42,875 corpus weight
- Brill
Brill
42,874 corpus weight
- brillaient
brillaient
42,873 corpus weight
- brouillée
brouillée
42,872 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bretzel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bretzel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛt.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bretzel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bretzel is uncommon French at frequency #57,126 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɛt.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bretzel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bretzel, spelled B-R-E-T-Z-E-L.
Definition
- 1Biscuit salé à base de pâte de brioche, spécialité d’Alsace et d’Allemagne en forme de gros nœud.
- 2Petit biscuit sec apéritif fabriqué industriellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bretzel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes restés là, à boire du champagne, à croquer dans des bretzels géants, à tartiner du caviar.
Les bretzels en boîtes métalliques et scellées hermétiquement pourront se conserver pendant plus d’un an.
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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