broch
\ˈbɹɒx\
The verdict
“broch” is uncommon French (frequency #64,986 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,986
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de tour en pierre de l'âge du fer avec des murs creux à double épaisseur, présent notamment aux Orcades, aux Shetland, dans les Hébrides et dans certaines parties de l'Écosse continentale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broch · broch · French
broch · rank #64,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,986
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brillera
Nearest frequency peer: brillera (-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 « broch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boussu
Boussu
35,019 corpus weight
- brillera
brillera
35,016 corpus weight
- broch
broch
35,015 corpus weight
- brochets
brochets
35,014 corpus weight
- Brom
Brom
35,013 corpus weight
- bruant
bruant
35,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « broch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɹɒx\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « broch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
broch is uncommon French at frequency #64,986 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbɹɒx\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Type de tour en pierre de l'âge du fer avec des murs creux à double épaisseur, présent notamment aux Orcades, aux Shetland, dans les Hébrides et dans certaines parties de l'Écosse continentale.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for broch, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is broch, spelled B-R-O-C-H.
Definition
- 1Type de tour en pierre de l'âge du fer avec des murs creux à double épaisseur, présent notamment aux Orcades, aux Shetland, dans les Hébrides et dans certaines parties de l'Écosse continentale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how broch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].
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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