brocard
\bʁɔ.kaʁ\
The verdict
“brocard” is uncommon French (frequency #68,094 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,094
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parole de moquerie, raillerie piquante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brocard · brocard · French
brocard · rank #68,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,094
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH briseurs
Nearest frequency peer: briseurs (-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 « brocard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- briseurs
briseurs
31,908 corpus weight
- brocard
brocard
31,907 corpus weight
- broute
broute
31,906 corpus weight
- bruna
bruna
31,904 corpus weight
- bukkake
bukkake
31,903 corpus weight
- bâillonner
bâillonner
31,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brocard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brocard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brocard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brocard is uncommon French at frequency #68,094 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɔ.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
brocard has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brocard, spelled B-R-O-C-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Parole de moquerie, raillerie piquante.
- 2Adage, maxime juridique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brocard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lancer des brocards.
Essuyer des brocards.
Synonyms
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).