brevis
\ˈbreː.vis\
The verdict
“brevis” is uncommon French (frequency #87,395 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,395
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé défini de l’indicatif du verbe brevañ/breviñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brevis · brevis · French
brevis · rank #87,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,395
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bremen
Nearest frequency peer: Bremen (-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 « brevis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BPCO
BPCO
12,610 corpus weight
- branlait
branlait
12,608 corpus weight
- Bremen
Bremen
12,607 corpus weight
- brevis
brevis
12,606 corpus weight
- brindes
brindes
12,605 corpus weight
- broccoli
broccoli
12,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brevis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brevis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbreː.vis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brevis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brevis is uncommon French at frequency #87,395 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈbreː.vis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé défini de l’indicatif du verbe brevañ/breviñ.".
Zero misspellings are on record for brevis in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brevis, spelled B-R-E-V-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé défini de l’indicatif du verbe brevañ/breviñ.
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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