bringelle
\bʁɛ̃.ʒɛl\
The verdict
“bringelle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Solanum melongena, l’aubergine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bringelle · bringelle · French
bringelle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | bringelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛ̃.ʒɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bringelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bringelle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɛ̃.ʒɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Solanum melongena, l’aubergine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bringelle, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bringelle, spelled B-R-I-N-G-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Solanum melongena, l’aubergine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bringelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aubergine : d’après le dictionnaire, le premier nom donné à ce légume aurait été vatin-ganah, terme hindi, qui devint badin-gan (en persan), puis al-badinjan (en arabe), alberginia (en catalan), bringelle (en créole de La Réunion).
La bringelle n’est pas le fruit du bringellier, c’est le nom local de l’aubergine.
Synonyms
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.