broussaille
\bʁu.saj\
The verdict
“broussaille” is uncommon French (frequency #83,672 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,672
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante ligneuse, de quelque espèce, plutôt courte et ramifiée, qui envahit les terrains incultes et les forêts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broussaille · broussaille · French
broussaille · rank #83,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,672
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brocanteurs
Nearest frequency peer: brocanteurs (-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 « broussaille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- briard
briard
16,332 corpus weight
- brocanteurs
brocanteurs
16,330 corpus weight
- broussaille
broussaille
16,329 corpus weight
- Bruguière
Bruguière
16,328 corpus weight
- brumisateur
brumisateur
16,327 corpus weight
- brutaliser
brutaliser
16,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « broussaille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broussaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.saj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « broussaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
broussaille is uncommon French at frequency #83,672 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁu.saj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante ligneuse, de quelque espèce, plutôt courte et ramifiée, qui envahit les terrains incultes et les forêts.".
Zero misspellings are on record for broussaille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is broussaille, spelled B-R-O-U-S-S-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Plante ligneuse, de quelque espèce, plutôt courte et ramifiée, qui envahit les terrains incultes et les forêts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how broussaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; et, quoique les hauts arbustes et les broussailles excessivement accrues se rejoignissent par le haut, il n’y avait en bas aucune espèce d’obstacle, […].
Après une longue marche nous arrivâmes à une espèce de broussaille, à des boyaux un peu plus creusés, et à un abri de capitaine, qui n'était guère solide.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).