Brioude
\bʁi.jud\
The verdict
“Brioude” is uncommon French (frequency #58,466 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,466
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brioude · Brioude · French
Brioude · rank #58,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,466
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brokers
Nearest frequency peer: brokers (+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 « Brioude »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouter
bouter
41,538 corpus weight
- bractées
bractées
41,537 corpus weight
- Brioude
Brioude
41,535 corpus weight
- brokers
brokers
41,534 corpus weight
- Béninoise
Béninoise
41,533 corpus weight
- cadettes
cadettes
41,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Brioude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brioude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.jud\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Brioude » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Brioude is uncommon French at frequency #58,466 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bʁi.jud\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Brioude in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Brioude, spelled B-R-I-O-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Loire.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Haute-Loire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Brioude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De là, elle gagnerait Le Puy par la patache, et ensuite Brioude.
Séparé de ma mère et nanti d’une nouvelle femme, il choisit donc Brioude pour refaire sa vie, emmenant avec lui ses trois enfants, ma sœur Évelyne, mon frère Jacques et moi — j’étais l’aîné, j’avais neuf ans.
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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