brieux
\bʁi.jø\
The verdict
“brieux” is uncommon French (frequency #97,735 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,735
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Laissez-passer délivré par la ferme générale ou l'amirauté pour les navires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brieux · brieux · French
brieux · rank #97,735 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,735
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bromance
Nearest frequency peer: bromance (+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 « brieux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brabançons
brabançons
2,271 corpus weight
- bressan
bressan
2,269 corpus weight
- brieux
brieux
2,266 corpus weight
- bromance
bromance
2,265 corpus weight
- bronchiques
bronchiques
2,264 corpus weight
- bubu
bubu
2,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brieux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.jø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brieux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brieux is uncommon French at frequency #97,735 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁi.jø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Laissez-passer délivré par la ferme générale ou l'amirauté pour les navires.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brieux, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is brieux, spelled B-R-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Laissez-passer délivré par la ferme générale ou l'amirauté pour les navires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La taxe des droits de brieux, que payent les barques ou vaisseaux, selon leur différent port à Nantes & dans sa prévôté, aussi bien que pour les sels de Brouage, la Rochelle, Guerande, transportés tant à Nantes & comté Nantois qu’au Croisic.
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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