brochets
\bʁɔ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“brochets” is uncommon French (frequency #64,987 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,987
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de brochet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brochets · brochets · French
brochets · rank #64,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,987
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH broch
Nearest frequency peer: broch (-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 « brochets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- brûlera
brûlera
35,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brochets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brochets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brochets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brochets is uncommon French at frequency #64,987 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɔ.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de brochet.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brochets, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brochets, spelled B-R-O-C-H-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de brochet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brochets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’époque du frai, les brochets mâles se bagarrent souvent entre eux pour obtenir les faveurs d’une grosse femelle.
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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