brigadiers
\bʁi.ɡa.dje\
The verdict
“brigadiers” is uncommon French (frequency #74,619 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,619
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de brigadier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brigadiers · brigadiers · French
brigadiers · rank #74,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,619
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brentano
Nearest frequency peer: Brentano (-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 « brigadiers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brancardier
brancardier
25,386 corpus weight
- brandie
brandie
25,385 corpus weight
- Brentano
Brentano
25,383 corpus weight
- brigadiers
brigadiers
25,382 corpus weight
- Brindisi
Brindisi
25,381 corpus weight
- brossez
brossez
25,378 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brigadiers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brigadiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁi.ɡa.dje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brigadiers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brigadiers is uncommon French at frequency #74,619 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁi.ɡa.dje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de brigadier.".
brigadiers has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is brigadiers, spelled B-R-I-G-A-D-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de brigadier.
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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