Brignais
\bʁi.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“Brignais” is uncommon French (frequency #88,412 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,412
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Rhône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brignais · Brignais · French
Brignais · rank #88,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,412
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH breloque
Nearest frequency peer: breloque (-2 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 « Brignais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouleversera
bouleversera
11,593 corpus weight
- breloque
breloque
11,591 corpus weight
- Brignais
Brignais
11,589 corpus weight
- briscard
briscard
11,587 corpus weight
- bronchites
bronchites
11,586 corpus weight
- brouillant
brouillant
11,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Brignais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brignais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Brignais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Brignais is uncommon French at frequency #88,412 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bʁi.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Brignais has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Brignais, spelled B-R-I-G-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Rhône.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Rhône.
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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