bric-à-brac
\bʁi.ka.bʁak\
The verdict
“bric-à-brac” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objets, meubles, ferraille, ustensiles, tableaux, de provenances et d'époques diverses ramassés pour être revendus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bric-a-brac · bric-à-brac · French
bric-à-brac · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bric-à-brac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.ka.bʁak\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bric-à-brac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bric-à-brac is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁi.ka.bʁak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bric-à-brac in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bric-à-brac, spelled B-R-I-C---À---B-R-A-C.
Definition
- 1Objets, meubles, ferraille, ustensiles, tableaux, de provenances et d'époques diverses ramassés pour être revendus.
- 2Boutique de brocanteur.
- 3Objets divers entassés sans ordre.
- 4Ensemble hétéroclite de connaissances ou d'idées réunies sans lien entre elles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bric-à-brac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce chef-d’œuvre est exposé chez un des marchands de bric-à-brac dont les boutiques sont sur la place du Carrousel, près de ma maison.
Un Petit Dunkerque est une sorte de bazar de fines porcelaines et de curiosités artistiques, de charmantes et délicates inutilités , qui en font un bric-à-brac fashionable.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.