brise-glace
\bʁiz.ɡlas\
The verdict
“brise-glace” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construction placée en amont des piles d’un pont pour briser les glaces et les séparer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brise-glace · brise-glace · French
brise-glace · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | brise-glace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁiz.ɡlas\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
brise-glace is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁiz.ɡlas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for brise-glace in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 brise-glace, spelled B-R-I-S-E---G-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Construction placée en amont des piles d’un pont pour briser les glaces et les séparer.
- 2Bateau muni d’un dispositif destiné à briser la glace dans les rivières, dans les fleuves ou sur la banquise polaire en haute mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brise-glace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les panneaux formant le brise-glace sont soigneusement ajustés et boulonnés, la base est scellée dans la pierre de taille.
Les glaces de la mer Blanche n’avaient que peu de rapports avec celles de la banquise, et les cargos étaient précédés et convoyés par de remarquables « brise-glaces ».
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.