broute
\bʁut\
The verdict
“broute” is uncommon French (frequency #68,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,095
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broute · broute · French
broute · rank #68,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,095
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brocard
Nearest frequency peer: brocard (-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 « broute »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- briseurs
briseurs
31,908 corpus weight
- brocard
brocard
31,907 corpus weight
- broute
broute
31,906 corpus weight
- bruna
bruna
31,904 corpus weight
- bukkake
bukkake
31,903 corpus weight
- bâillonner
bâillonner
31,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « broute » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁut\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « broute » en français
Rare enough to double-check
broute is uncommon French at frequency #68,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
broute doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is broute, spelled B-R-O-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brouter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brouter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe brouter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe brouter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe brouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how broute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Bon. Quand dit-on d’un outil qu’il broute ? — Lorsqu’il coupe mal.
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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