brimer
\bʁi.me\
The verdict
“brimer” is uncommon French (frequency #80,002 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,002
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maltraiter, faire subir des épreuves vexatoires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brimer · brimer · French
brimer · rank #80,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,002
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brahmi
Nearest frequency peer: brahmi (-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 « brimer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bouvines
Bouvines
20,002 corpus weight
- brahmane
brahmane
20,001 corpus weight
- brahmi
brahmi
20,000 corpus weight
- brimer
brimer
19,999 corpus weight
- Brunehaut
Brunehaut
19,997 corpus weight
- brunelle
brunelle
19,996 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brimer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brimer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁi.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brimer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brimer is uncommon French at frequency #80,002 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁi.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for brimer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is brimer, spelled B-R-I-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Maltraiter, faire subir des épreuves vexatoires.
- 2Bizuter, faire subir des épreuves traditionnelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brimer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Révolution pourchasse les prêtres, brime les croyants, dépouille les églises.
Le traité de Versailles a fabriqué des Allemands brimés qui ont fabriqué des Juifs errants qui fabriquent des Palestiniens errants qui fabriquent des veuves errantes enceintes des vengeurs de demain…
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); 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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