bronchites
\bʁɔ̃.ʃit\
The verdict
“bronchites” is uncommon French (frequency #88,415 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,415
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bronchite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bronchites · bronchites · French
bronchites · rank #88,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,415
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH briscard
Nearest frequency peer: briscard (-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 « bronchites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brignais
Brignais
11,589 corpus weight
- briscard
briscard
11,587 corpus weight
- bronchites
bronchites
11,586 corpus weight
- brouillant
brouillant
11,585 corpus weight
- bruncher
bruncher
11,583 corpus weight
- brème
brème
11,582 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bronchites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bronchites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ̃.ʃit\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bronchites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bronchites is uncommon French at frequency #88,415 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɔ̃.ʃit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bronchite.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bronchites in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bronchites, spelled B-R-O-N-C-H-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bronchite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bronchites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Air : le Laurier noble, très tonifiant, agit sur la sphère respiratoire comme expectorant, mucolytique et anti-catarrhe, traitant bronchites, toux, rhume et grippe.
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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