broutille
\bʁu.tij\
The verdict
“broutille” is uncommon French (frequency #59,128 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,128
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Menues branches d’arbres entrant, avec les morceaux de bois, dans la composition des fagots, dont elles constituent l'âme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-broutille · broutille · French
broutille · rank #59,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,128
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brejnev
Nearest frequency peer: Brejnev (-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 « broutille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bousculant
bousculant
40,877 corpus weight
- brandissent
brandissent
40,876 corpus weight
- bravos
bravos
40,875 corpus weight
- Brejnev
Brejnev
40,874 corpus weight
- broutille
broutille
40,873 corpus weight
- Calonne
Calonne
40,869 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « broutille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broutille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.tij\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « broutille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
broutille is uncommon French at frequency #59,128 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁu.tij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for broutille in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 broutille, spelled B-R-O-U-T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Menues branches d’arbres entrant, avec les morceaux de bois, dans la composition des fagots, dont elles constituent l'âme.
- 2Éléments sans grande importance au vu de l’ensemble (d'un projet, par ex.) et qu’on peut considérer comme accessoires, sans que cela n’enlève rien à leur valeur intrinsèque.
- 3Chose sans grande importance, qui ne mérite pas que l’on s’y attarde (fréquent aussi au singulier).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how broutille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bûcheron se mit à couper du bois, et ses enfants à ramasser des broutilles pour faire des fagots.
De petits villageois, tels que ceux-ci, avaient élevé leur colosse; ils étaient en train d'y mettre le bouquet, lorsque la vieille Lisheth vint à passer, courbée en demi-cercle sous le poids d'un fagot de broutilles. Elle avait eu bien du mal à le recueillir, à cause de la neige nouvellement tombée; […].
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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