broutille
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#59,128
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
broutille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Menues branches d’arbres entrant, avec les morceaux de bois, dans la composition des fagots, dont elles constituent l'âme. Pronounced \bʁu.tij\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for broutille is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁu.tij\. Corpus data places it at rank #59,128 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for broutille in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is broutille, spelled B-R-O-U-T-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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).
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #59,128 in French
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