brougham
The verdict
“brougham” is uncommon French (frequency #91,472 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,472
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voiture hippomobile légère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brougham · brougham · French
brougham · rank #91,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,472
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brossent
Nearest frequency peer: brossent (-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 « brougham »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- buono
buono
8,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brougham » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brougham |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brougham » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brougham is uncommon French at frequency #91,472 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voiture hippomobile légère.".
No misspelling variants are generated for brougham in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is brougham, spelled B-R-O-U-G-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1Voiture hippomobile légère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brougham appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il [lord Brougham] faisait usage d'une voiture petite et basse de son invention, qui fut appelée et qui s'appelle encore un brougham.
Je me fais même couper les cheveux à crédit et, tant que c’était possible, j’ai eu un brougham pour ne rien dépenser en fiacres.
This word in other languages
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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