bronca
\bʁɔ̃.ka\
The verdict
“bronca” is uncommon French (frequency #87,399 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,399
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En tauromachie, manifestation bruyante du public en signe de désapprobation ou mécontentement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bronca · bronca · French
bronca · rank #87,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,399
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH broccoli
Nearest frequency peer: broccoli (-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 « bronca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bremen
Bremen
12,607 corpus weight
- brevis
brevis
12,606 corpus weight
- brindes
brindes
12,605 corpus weight
- broccoli
broccoli
12,603 corpus weight
- bronca
bronca
12,602 corpus weight
- brossant
brossant
12,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bronca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bronca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ̃.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bronca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bronca is uncommon French at frequency #87,399 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɔ̃.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bronca in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bronca, spelled B-R-O-N-C-A.
Definition
- 1En tauromachie, manifestation bruyante du public en signe de désapprobation ou mécontentement.
- 2Tumulte, scandale, tollé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bronca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bronca au palco, un trio aussi injuste qu’incapable, des bandits de grand chemin…
À la Monumental de Barcelone un dimanche après-midi après cinq heures du soir, le maestro Julio Aparicio, apparemment secoué de sa torpeur par la bronca dont il est l’objet, égrène trois ou quatre véroniques d’une beauté si noble et si lente qu’on pourrait la dire statutaire. .
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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