brillantissime
\bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.sim\
The verdict
“brillantissime” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Superlatif de brillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brillantissime · brillantissime · French
brillantissime · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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 | brillantissime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.sim\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
brillantissime is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.sim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Superlatif de brillant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brillantissime, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brillantissime, spelled B-R-I-L-L-A-N-T-I-S-S-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Superlatif de brillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brillantissime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eytan Ben Éliahou, le commandant en second de l’Air Force, qu’on m’avait assigné comme pilote, était un aviateur brillantissime, audacieux, d’une liberté rare, rejeton d’un Juif irakien et d’une Juive serbe, avec à son actif les plus hauts faits de l’arme aérienne.
Avant de faire son entrée en politique active, le père, Pierre Trudeau, s’était déjà acquis une réputation d’intellectuel de gauche, brillantissime dans les discussions, ouvert à des remises en question fondamentales et si frondeur dans son comportement qu’il en imposait dans un Québec tétanisé par la religion omniprésente et l’isolement étouffant qui ava…
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