broue
\bʁu\
The verdict
“broue” is uncommon French (frequency #79,117 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,117
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mousse accumulée à la surface d’un liquide, et en particulier de la bière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broue · broue · French
broue · rank #79,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,117
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH broussard
Nearest frequency peer: broussard (+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 « broue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bridage
bridage
20,887 corpus weight
- bringue
bringue
20,886 corpus weight
- broue
broue
20,884 corpus weight
- broussard
broussard
20,883 corpus weight
- Bruz
Bruz
20,882 corpus weight
- Brézé
Brézé
20,881 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « broue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « broue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
broue is uncommon French at frequency #79,117 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for broue in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is broue, spelled B-R-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Mousse accumulée à la surface d’un liquide, et en particulier de la bière.
- 2Bière.
- 3Liquide de fabrication artisanale pouvant être distillé pour fabriquer de l’alcool.
- 4Écume de la mer ou de l’océan, par comparaison avec l’écume de la bière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how broue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vais te montrer comment verser la bière sans faire trop de broue.
Attention, ta broue va déborder!
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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