broussard
\bʁu.saʁ\
The verdict
“broussard” is uncommon French (frequency #79,118 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,118
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de la brousse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broussard · broussard · French
broussard · rank #79,118 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,118
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH broue
Nearest frequency peer: broue (-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 « broussard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bringue
bringue
20,886 corpus weight
- broue
broue
20,884 corpus weight
- broussard
broussard
20,883 corpus weight
- Bruz
Bruz
20,882 corpus weight
- Brézé
Brézé
20,881 corpus weight
- buggé
buggé
20,880 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « broussard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broussard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.saʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « broussard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
broussard is uncommon French at frequency #79,118 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁu.saʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for broussard in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is broussard, spelled B-R-O-U-S-S-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Habitant de la brousse.
- 2Caldoche vivant dans la brousse (hors de Nouméa et de sa banlieue) et menant une vie rurale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how broussard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour nombre d’africains citadins francophones, broussard est péjoratif, presque synonyme d'arriéré!
Un jour, un broussard vint en Land-Rover au restaurant.
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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