brossant
\bʁɔ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“brossant” is uncommon French (frequency #87,400 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,400
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe brosser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brossant · brossant · French
brossant · rank #87,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,400
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bronca
Nearest frequency peer: bronca (-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 « brossant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Burgonde
Burgonde
12,597 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brossant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brossant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɔ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brossant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brossant is uncommon French at frequency #87,400 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁɔ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe brosser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for brossant in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is brossant, spelled B-R-O-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe brosser.
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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