Brouage
\bʁu.aʒ\
The verdict
“Brouage” is uncommon French (frequency #84,588 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,588
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime, intégrée à la commune de Hiers-Brouage en mars 1825.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouage · Brouage · French
Brouage · rank #84,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,588
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buller
Nearest frequency peer: buller (+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 « Brouage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Briare
Briare
15,418 corpus weight
- brito
brito
15,415 corpus weight
- Brouage
Brouage
15,413 corpus weight
- buller
buller
15,412 corpus weight
- Bundeswehr
Bundeswehr
15,411 corpus weight
- burel
burel
15,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Brouage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brouage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.aʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Brouage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Brouage is uncommon French at frequency #84,588 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bʁu.aʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime, intégrée à la commune de Hiers-Brouage en mars 1825.".
Brouage has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Brouage, spelled B-R-O-U-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime, intégrée à la commune de Hiers-Brouage en mars 1825.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brouage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec un peu de chance, en étant discret et attentif, vous apercevrez peut-être une cistude, petite tortue d’eau dont le marais de Brouage est l’un des derniers habitats français.
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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