brink
\brɪŋk\
The verdict
“brink” is uncommon French (frequency #61,361 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,361
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bord, lisière, orée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brink · brink · French
brink · rank #61,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,361
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brantôme
Nearest frequency peer: Brantôme (-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 « brink »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boxon
boxon
38,643 corpus weight
- Braithwaite
Braithwaite
38,642 corpus weight
- Brantôme
Brantôme
38,641 corpus weight
- brink
brink
38,640 corpus weight
- brisait
brisait
38,639 corpus weight
- Brocéliande
Brocéliande
38,638 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brink » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brink |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \brɪŋk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brink » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brink is uncommon French at frequency #61,361 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \brɪŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bord, lisière, orée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for brink in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 brink, spelled B-R-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1Bord, lisière, orée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brink appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The brink of a well.
To be upon the very brink of a precipice.
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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