brewer

Name: brewer, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“brewer” is uncommon French (frequency #50,689 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,689
frequency rank, French: 4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brasseur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-brewer · brewer · French

brewer · rank #50,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #50,689
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-MID 4,251
PHOTO-FINISH bousille

Nearest frequency peer: bousille (-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.

bougeant

49,317
bourru

49,314
bousille

49,313
brewer

49,312
Brodie

49,310
brossage

49,309

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brewer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Key facts for brewer
Property	Value
Headword	brewer
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#50,689
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « brewer » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).brewertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#50,689

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « bousille » (#50,688), « bourru » (#50,687), « Brodie » (#50,691). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brewer » est au #50,689. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

brewer is uncommon French at frequency #50,689 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Brasseur.".

No misspelling variants are generated for brewer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brewer, spelled B-R-E-W-E-R.

Definition

1
Brasseur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how brewer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Bill’s library began receiving donations in his last years in office. Including, in 1999, one million dollars from a major beer brewer.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brewer"?

"brewer" is spelled B-R-E-W-E-R.

What does "brewer" mean?

As a noun, "brewer" means: Brasseur.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brewer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bourru#50,687 Brodie#50,691 bordas#50,682 Bocuse#50,678