brossent
\bʁɔs\
The verdict
“brossent” is uncommon French (frequency #91,471 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,471
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe brosser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brossent · brossent · French
brossent · rank #91,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,471
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Briana
Nearest frequency peer: Briana (-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 « brossent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- breed
breed
8,533 corpus weight
- Briac
Briac
8,532 corpus weight
- Briana
Briana
8,531 corpus weight
- brossent
brossent
8,530 corpus weight
- brougham
brougham
8,529 corpus weight
- brûlerait
brûlerait
8,527 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brossent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brossent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brossent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brossent is uncommon French at frequency #91,471 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
brossent has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brossent, spelled B-R-O-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe brosser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe brosser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brossent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aide place les cartouches sur le prélat ; les démolisseurs coupent les ligatures, enlèvent le boulet ensaboté, le brossent, le posent sur le prélat, versent la poudre grenée dans un baril, celle en roche dans un autre, retournent le sachet, le nettoient et le mettent dans la caisse ; le désensaboteur reçoit les boulets de l’aide et désensabote ceux qui…
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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