breveter
\bʁəv.te\
The verdict
“breveter” is uncommon French (frequency #55,789 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,789
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Octroyer un brevet de capacité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-breveter · breveter · French
breveter · rank #55,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,789
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulez
Nearest frequency peer: boulez (-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 « breveter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouchez
bouchez
44,215 corpus weight
- boueuse
boueuse
44,214 corpus weight
- boulez
boulez
44,213 corpus weight
- breveter
breveter
44,212 corpus weight
- broke
broke
44,211 corpus weight
- bruissement
bruissement
44,210 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « breveter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breveter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁəv.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « breveter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
breveter is uncommon French at frequency #55,789 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁəv.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for breveter in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 breveter, spelled B-R-E-V-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Octroyer un brevet de capacité.
- 2Enregistrer un brevet pour protéger une invention, une marque, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breveter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Attendu qu'il est établi que, dans le courant du mois d'août 1856, Sonier, berger à Fontenelle, commune d’Antheny, s'étant adressé au prévenu pour le consulter au sujet d'une maladie dont il était atteint, celui-ci lui a dit mensongèrement qu'il était médecin et qu'il avait été breveté par l'Empereur; […].
Les philosophes […] estiment que, seuls, les sentiments brevetés par les Universités ont le droit de se manifester dans la poésie.
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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