brièveté
French, noun/bʁi.jɛv.te/
brièveté is spelled B-R-I-È-V-E-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 51,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brièveté is a French feminine noun meaning “brevity (quality of being brief)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Courte durée”.
What does brièveté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebrevity (quality of being brief)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Courte durée. 2. Concision dans la parole et dans le style.
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 brièveté
- brièvetés plural
- brévité
- brèveté
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brièveté?
- /bʁi.jɛv.te/
- \bʁi.jɛv.te\
- [bʁi.jɛv.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brièveté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brièveté in French?
brièveté appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).