brouillonne
\bʁu.jɔn\
The verdict
“brouillonne” is uncommon French (frequency #90,493 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,493
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage qui manque d’ordre, de rigueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouillonne · brouillonne · French
brouillonne · rank #90,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,493
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brouilleurs
Nearest frequency peer: brouilleurs (-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 « brouillonne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brig
brig
9,513 corpus weight
- Brosseau
Brosseau
9,510 corpus weight
- brouilleurs
brouilleurs
9,509 corpus weight
- brouillonne
brouillonne
9,508 corpus weight
- brûlèrent
brûlèrent
9,505 corpus weight
- buenas
buenas
9,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brouillonne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouillonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.jɔn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brouillonne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brouillonne is uncommon French at frequency #90,493 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁu.jɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
brouillonne has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is brouillonne, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Personnage qui manque d’ordre, de rigueur.
- 2Personnage qui aime à brouiller les gens entre eux, à créer la discorde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brouillonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Oh ! sire, dit l’amiral, la reine Catherine… — Est une brouillonne. Avec elle il n’y a pas de paix possible. Ces catholiques italiens sont enragés et n’entendent rien qu’à exterminer.
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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