brochet
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,152
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
brochet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poisson d’eau douce, au corps allongé et dont la bouche est garnie de dents nombreuses, fortes et pointues (genre Esox). Pronounced \bʁɔ.ʃɛ\. Often confused with brother and bronche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brochet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brochet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɔ.ʃɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,152 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for brochet, with forms such as "bbrochet", "borchet", and "brcohet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "brother", "bronche", "broncher", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is brochet, spelled B-R-O-C-H-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poisson d’eau douce, au corps allongé et dont la bouche est garnie de dents nombreuses, fortes et pointues (genre Esox).
- 2Grand brochet (Esox lucius).
- 3Ce poisson apprêté pour être mangé.
- 4Homme cupide et sans scrupules ; requin.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrochet,borchet,brcohet,brocchet,broceht,brochett,brochhet,brochte,brohcet,brrochet,rbochet
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Misspelling Variants of "brochet"
Frequency rank: #40,152 in French
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