brillaient
\bʁi.jɛ\
The verdict
“brillaient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,128 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,128
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe briller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brillaient · brillaient · French
brillaient · rank #57,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,128
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brill
Nearest frequency peer: Brill (-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 « brillaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bretzel
bretzel
42,875 corpus weight
- Brill
Brill
42,874 corpus weight
- brillaient
brillaient
42,873 corpus weight
- brouillée
brouillée
42,872 corpus weight
- bucher
bucher
42,871 corpus weight
- buffets
buffets
42,870 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brillaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brillaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brillaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brillaient is uncommon French at frequency #57,128 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁi.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe briller.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brillaient, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is brillaient, spelled B-R-I-L-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe briller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brillaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les remparts de la citadelle et les mosquées de Galata se fondaient dans le ciel bombé de la nuit, de rares lumières brillaient aux longues fenêtres grillées du quartier turc, au flanc des rues tordues.
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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