brouillées
\bʁu.je\
The verdict
“brouillées” is uncommon French (frequency #78,208 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,208
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de brouillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouillees · brouillées · French
brouillées · rank #78,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,208
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brouilleur
Nearest frequency peer: brouilleur (-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 « brouillées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brenne
brenne
21,797 corpus weight
- briserait
briserait
21,796 corpus weight
- brouilleur
brouilleur
21,794 corpus weight
- brouillées
brouillées
21,793 corpus weight
- Brégançon
Brégançon
21,791 corpus weight
- Buche
Buche
21,790 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brouillées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouillées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁu.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brouillées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brouillées is uncommon French at frequency #78,208 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de brouillé.".
brouillées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is brouillées, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de brouillé.
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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