broadcast
\bʁɔd.kast\
The verdict
“broadcast” is uncommon French (frequency #57,797 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,797
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transmission simultanée vers tous les équipements d'un réseau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broadcast · broadcast · French
broadcast · rank #57,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,797
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brindille
Nearest frequency peer: brindille (-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 « broadcast »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brics
brics
42,206 corpus weight
- brindille
brindille
42,205 corpus weight
- broadcast
broadcast
42,204 corpus weight
- Bukowski
Bukowski
42,203 corpus weight
- bâtissent
bâtissent
42,202 corpus weight
- Bérégovoy
Bérégovoy
42,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « broadcast » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broadcast |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔd.kast\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « broadcast » en français
Rare enough to double-check
broadcast is uncommon French at frequency #57,797 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɔd.kast\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Transmission simultanée vers tous les équipements d'un réseau.".
broadcast has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is broadcast, spelled B-R-O-A-D-C-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1Transmission simultanée vers tous les équipements d'un réseau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how broadcast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut absolument maîtriser le calcul d'un masque de sous-réseau, le nombre d’hôtes, les adresses des sous-réseaux ainsi que les adresses de broadcast.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).