briscard
\bris.kaʁ\
The verdict
“briscard” is uncommon French (frequency #88,414 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,414
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat expérimenté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briscard · briscard · French
briscard · rank #88,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,414
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bronchites
Nearest frequency peer: bronchites (+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 « briscard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- breloque
breloque
11,591 corpus weight
- Brignais
Brignais
11,589 corpus weight
- briscard
briscard
11,587 corpus weight
- bronchites
bronchites
11,586 corpus weight
- brouillant
brouillant
11,585 corpus weight
- bruncher
bruncher
11,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « briscard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briscard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bris.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « briscard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
briscard is uncommon French at frequency #88,414 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bris.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for briscard, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is briscard, spelled B-R-I-S-C-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Soldat expérimenté.
- 2Personne que l'expérience a rendue rusée et maligne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how briscard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], il vit à l’horizon se dresser la haute silhouette de son ennemi qui revenait sans doute de visiter son collègue, le garde-forestier de la Joux, un vieux briscard comme lui avec qui il aimait à rappeler le passé et à choquer le verre.
Ces vieux briscards avaient, vingt ans durant, fait trembler l’Europe et forgé la gloire de Napoléon.
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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