brouillards
\bʁu.jaʁ\
The verdict
“brouillards” is uncommon French (frequency #55,106 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,106
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de brouillard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouillards · brouillards · French
brouillards · rank #55,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,106
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bromure
Nearest frequency peer: bromure (-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 « brouillards »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brisera
brisera
44,897 corpus weight
- bromure
bromure
44,896 corpus weight
- brouillards
brouillards
44,895 corpus weight
- Brugeois
Brugeois
44,894 corpus weight
- buccal
buccal
44,893 corpus weight
- Buchenwald
Buchenwald
44,892 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brouillards » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouillards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brouillards » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brouillards is uncommon French at frequency #55,106 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁu.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de brouillard.".
brouillards doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 brouillards, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de brouillard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brouillards appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout des gazes blanches ou peintes comme les ailes des plus jolies libellules, des crêpes, des dentelles, des blondes, des tulles variés comme les fantaisies de la nature entomologique, découpés, ondés, dentelés, des fils d’aranéide en or, en argent, des brouillards de soie, des fleurs brodées par les fées ou fleuries par des génies emprisonnés, des pl…
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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