brougham

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brougham » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for brougham
PropertyValue
Headwordbrougham
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#91,472
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « brougham » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.broughamtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « brossent » (#91,471), « Briana » (#91,470), « brûlerait » (#91,474). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brougham » est au #91,472. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Voiture hippomobile légère.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how brougham appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il [lord Brougham] faisait usage d'une voiture petite et basse de son invention, qui fut appelée et qui s'appelle encore un brougham.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brougham"?
"brougham" is spelled B-R-O-U-G-H-A-M.
What does "brougham" mean?
As a noun, "brougham" means: Voiture hippomobile légère.
What language does "brougham" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brougham", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list