bretzels
\bʁɛt.zɛl\
The verdict
“bretzels” is uncommon French (frequency #69,638 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,638
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bretzel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bretzels · bretzels · French
bretzels · rank #69,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,638
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH breloques
Nearest frequency peer: breloques (-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 « bretzels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boussac
Boussac
30,366 corpus weight
- Bovet
Bovet
30,365 corpus weight
- breloques
breloques
30,364 corpus weight
- bretzels
bretzels
30,363 corpus weight
- briefe
briefe
30,362 corpus weight
- bronchique
bronchique
30,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bretzels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bretzels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛt.zɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bretzels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bretzels is uncommon French at frequency #69,638 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɛt.zɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bretzel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bretzels, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 bretzels, spelled B-R-E-T-Z-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bretzel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bretzels 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.
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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