brillance
French, noun/bʁi.jɑ̃s/
brillance is spelled B-R-I-L-L-A-N-C-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brillance is a French feminine noun meaning “shininess” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui est brillant”.
What does brillance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshininess
- 2
femininebrightness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de ce qui est brillant.
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 brillance
- brillances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brillance?
- /bʁi.jɑ̃s/
- \bʁi.jɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brillance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brillance in French?
brillance appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).