brouilly
\bʁu.ji\
The verdict
“brouilly” is uncommon French (frequency #89,488 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,488
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin rouge d’appellation AOC issu de l’un des dix crus du vignoble du Beaujolais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brouilly · brouilly · French
brouilly · rank #89,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,488
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brotteaux
Nearest frequency peer: brotteaux (-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 « brouilly »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brassières
brassières
10,518 corpus weight
- braveheart
braveheart
10,517 corpus weight
- brotteaux
brotteaux
10,514 corpus weight
- brouilly
brouilly
10,513 corpus weight
- bureautiques
bureautiques
10,510 corpus weight
- butant
butant
10,508 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brouilly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouilly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.ji\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brouilly » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brouilly is uncommon French at frequency #89,488 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁu.ji\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin rouge d’appellation AOC issu de l’un des dix crus du vignoble du Beaujolais.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for brouilly, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brouilly, spelled B-R-O-U-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Vin rouge d’appellation AOC issu de l’un des dix crus du vignoble du Beaujolais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brouilly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il allume une cigarette qu’il écrase après deux bouffées et finit par commander une bouteille de brouilly.
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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