briseur
\bʁi.zœʁ\
The verdict
“briseur” is uncommon French (frequency #63,577 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,577
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui brise, qui rompt quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briseur · briseur · French
briseur · rank #63,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,577
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH braye
Nearest frequency peer: braye (-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 « briseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouillabais…
bouillabaisse
36,428 corpus weight
- bound
bound
36,427 corpus weight
- braye
braye
36,425 corpus weight
- briseur
briseur
36,424 corpus weight
- Brits
Brits
36,423 corpus weight
- bruine
bruine
36,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « briseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.zœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « briseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
briseur is uncommon French at frequency #63,577 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁi.zœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for briseur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is briseur, spelled B-R-I-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui brise, qui rompt quelque chose.
- 2Marteau servant au concassage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how briseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un briseur d’os.
On l'attend anxieusement, ce messager, ce briseur des solitudes.
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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