briqueterie
\bʁik.tʁi\
The verdict
“briqueterie” is uncommon French (frequency #75,461 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,461
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où on fait de la brique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briqueterie · briqueterie · French
briqueterie · rank #75,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,461
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Braxton
Nearest frequency peer: Braxton (-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 « briqueterie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- branca
branca
24,542 corpus weight
- Braxton
Braxton
24,541 corpus weight
- briqueterie
briqueterie
24,540 corpus weight
- briserai
briserai
24,539 corpus weight
- britanno
britanno
24,538 corpus weight
- bronco
bronco
24,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « briqueterie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briqueterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁik.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « briqueterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
briqueterie is uncommon French at frequency #75,461 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁik.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for briqueterie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is briqueterie, spelled B-R-I-Q-U-E-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où on fait de la brique.
- 2Entreprise qui fabrique des briques ou des tuiles (tuilerie).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how briqueterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Emmène-les, Caralin, dit Bryne en se levant. Et quand tu les auras confiées à Joni, rejoins-moi à la briqueterie. (La lassitude du seigneur revint d’un seul coup.) Pour continuer à produire des briques, Thad Haren affirme avoir besoin de plus d’eau, et j’ignore où j’en trouverai…
La briqueterie a été construite au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle par un châtelain fouriériste qui voulait procurer du travail aux habitants de Cémoy.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).