brièvement
French, adverb/bʁi.jɛv.mɑ̃/
brièvement is spelled B-R-I-È-V-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written French, the 8,517th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brièvement is a French adverb meaning “briefly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “De façon brève”.
What does brièvement mean in English?
adverb
- 1
briefly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. De façon brève. 2. En peu de mots.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of brièvement
- brèvement obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brièvement?
- /bʁi.jɛv.mɑ̃/
- \bʁi.jɛv.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brièvement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brièvement in French?
brièvement appears 7.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).