Brosseau
The verdict
“Brosseau” is uncommon French (frequency #90,491 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,491
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brosseau · Brosseau · French
Brosseau · rank #90,491 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,491
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brouilleurs
Nearest frequency peer: brouilleurs (+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 « Brosseau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bretteur
bretteur
9,514 corpus weight
- brig
brig
9,513 corpus weight
- Brosseau
Brosseau
9,510 corpus weight
- brouilleurs
brouilleurs
9,509 corpus weight
- brouillonne
brouillonne
9,508 corpus weight
- brûlèrent
brûlèrent
9,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Brosseau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brosseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Brosseau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Brosseau is uncommon French at frequency #90,491 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Brosseau in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Brosseau, spelled B-R-O-S-S-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brosseau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cécile, de son vrai nom Cécile Brosseau, est venue rencontrer les classes de 4ᵉ du collège Marmontel dans le cadre du projet Libre et ris !
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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