briard
\bʁi.jaʁ\
The verdict
“briard” is uncommon French (frequency #83,669 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,669
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Originaire ou typique de la Brie ou relatif à cette région de l'est du Bassin parisien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briard · briard · French
briard · rank #83,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,669
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH briant
Nearest frequency peer: briant (-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 « briard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brace
brace
16,335 corpus weight
- Brandenburg
Brandenburg
16,334 corpus weight
- briant
briant
16,333 corpus weight
- briard
briard
16,332 corpus weight
- brocanteurs
brocanteurs
16,330 corpus weight
- broussaille
broussaille
16,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « briard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « briard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
briard is uncommon French at frequency #83,669 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁi.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Originaire ou typique de la Brie ou relatif à cette région de l'est du Bassin parisien.".
briard has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is briard, spelled B-R-I-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Originaire ou typique de la Brie ou relatif à cette région de l'est du Bassin parisien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how briard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Betterave à sucre et fromages sont deux productions importantes dans l'économie briarde.
Privé de toute communication avec la France, il avait gardé son ancien jargon briard dans toute sa pureté native, parlait comme un Jeannot d’opéra-comique, et semblait réciter perpétuellement des paroles de M. Étienne.
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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