brièveté
\bʁi.jɛv.te\
The verdict
“brièveté” is uncommon French (frequency #51,323 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,323
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courte durée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brievete · brièveté · French
brièveté · rank #51,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,323
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH briquets
Nearest frequency peer: briquets (-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 « brièveté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brader
brader
48,681 corpus weight
- brancards
brancards
48,680 corpus weight
- briquets
briquets
48,679 corpus weight
- brièveté
brièveté
48,678 corpus weight
- bruitages
bruitages
48,677 corpus weight
- buggy
buggy
48,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brièveté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brièveté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.jɛv.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brièveté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brièveté is uncommon French at frequency #51,323 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁi.jɛv.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
brièveté doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brièveté, spelled B-R-I-È-V-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Courte durée.
- 2Concision dans la parole et dans le style.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brièveté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lecture de la littérature gynécologique et, en particulier, celle des articles consacrés à la lutte contre la stérilité, renforce l'impression d'une grande monotonie et surtout d'une grande brièveté dans l'acte.
Synonyms
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); 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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