brimborion
\bʁɛ̃.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃\
The verdict
“brimborion” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet de peu de valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brimborion · brimborion · French
brimborion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | brimborion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛ̃.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
brimborion is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɛ̃.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
brimborion has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is brimborion, spelled B-R-I-M-B-O-R-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Objet de peu de valeur.
- 2Personne insignifiante.
- 3Couille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brimborion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
GORGIBUS (à part) Ces pendardes-là, avec leur pommade, ont, je pense, envie de me ruiner. Je ne vois partout que blancs d’œufs, lait virginal, et mille autres brimborions que je ne connais point.
CHRYSALE : Vos livres éternels ne me contentent pas, Et hors un gros Plutarque à mettre mes rabats, Vous devriez brûler tout ce meuble inutile, Et laisser la science aux docteurs de la ville; M’ôter, pour faire bien, du grenier de céans Cette longue lunette à faire peur aux gens, Et cent brimborions dont l’aspect importune : Ne point aller chercher ce qu’…
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.