briganderie
\bʁi.ɡɑ̃.də.ʁi\
The verdict
“briganderie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de brigandage, pillage et violences commis par des brigands.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briganderie · briganderie · French
briganderie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briganderie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.ɡɑ̃.də.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « briganderie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
briganderie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁi.ɡɑ̃.də.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de brigandage, pillage et violences commis par des brigands.".
briganderie has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is briganderie, spelled B-R-I-G-A-N-D-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Action de brigandage, pillage et violences commis par des brigands.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how briganderie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On se souvient d’Aristote (384-322 av. J.-C.) dissociant des hommes et femmes libres les esclaves par nature (La politique, L. I, ch. V.) qui étaient capturés à la suite de guerres, d’actes de briganderie ou de piraterie, ou encore par voie de justice, pour usurpation de citoyenneté ou pour dette.
Icelle était horriblement fertile et copieuse en mouches bovines et frelons, de sorte que c’était une vraie briganderie pour les pauvres juments, ânes, et chevaux.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.