broquette
\bʁɔ.kɛt\
The verdict
“broquette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de petit clou de fer à tête, utilisé en tapisserie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broquette · broquette · French
broquette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
broquette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɔ.kɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
broquette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is broquette, spelled B-R-O-Q-U-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de petit clou de fer à tête, utilisé en tapisserie.
- 2Sorte de petit clou de fer à tête, utilisé en tapisserie.
- 3Certaine quantité de ces petits clous.
- 4Pénis de jeune garçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how broquette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
BROQUETTE , s . f . (Serrur .) Petits clous à tête ronde servant à fixer les platines des verrous, des targettes. Il y en a plusieurs sortes, la broquette à l'anglaise, la broquette emboutie , la broquette de trois quarts de livre, …. La broquette est avant tout un clou de tenture mais qui est employé par des corps d'état différents, ce qui fait qu'elle à…
Broquette : On nomme ainsi tot les clous dont le millier pèse depuis huit onces, jusqu'à deux livres, ….
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.