brouillant
\bʁu.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“brouillant” is uncommon French (frequency #88,416 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,416
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui crée de la confusion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouillant · brouillant · French
brouillant · rank #88,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,416
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bronchites
Nearest frequency peer: bronchites (-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 « brouillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brignais
Brignais
11,589 corpus weight
- briscard
briscard
11,587 corpus weight
- bronchites
bronchites
11,586 corpus weight
- brouillant
brouillant
11,585 corpus weight
- bruncher
bruncher
11,583 corpus weight
- brème
brème
11,582 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brouillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁu.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brouillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brouillant is uncommon French at frequency #88,416 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁu.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui crée de la confusion.".
brouillant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is brouillant, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui crée de la confusion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brouillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’excitation brouillante où l’avait mis le vin de Champagne, il se souvint cependant d’un nom qu’avait prononcé du Tillet, et demanda quel était et où demeurait monsieur Gobseck, banquier.
Malgré cela nous nous expliquons mal l’obtention du 3ᵉ prix par la pièce : Il est trop tard, qui n’a réellement rien de remarquable, elle nous a laissé dans l’oreille la brouillante impression que produisent sur le regard ces couvertures que les campagnardes économes confectionnent avec des petits morceaux de toutes couleurs.
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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