brrr
\bʁː\
The verdict
“brrr” is uncommon French (frequency #66,551 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,551
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée qui exprime le sentiment de froid ou plus rarement, le sentiment de peur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brrr · brrr · French
brrr · rank #66,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,551
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brotherhood
Nearest frequency peer: brotherhood (-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 « brrr »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brade
brade
33,454 corpus weight
- brotherhood
brotherhood
33,451 corpus weight
- brrr
brrr
33,450 corpus weight
- brush
brush
33,449 corpus weight
- Burg
Burg
33,446 corpus weight
- Byblos
Byblos
33,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brrr » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brrr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \bʁː\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brrr » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brrr is uncommon French at frequency #66,551 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \bʁː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Onomatopée qui exprime le sentiment de froid ou plus rarement, le sentiment de peur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brrr, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 brrr, spelled B-R-R-R.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée qui exprime le sentiment de froid ou plus rarement, le sentiment de peur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brrr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
PÉTERHOFF : Brrr ! Attendez que ma langue se dégèle ! Brrr ! JEAN : Vont-ils revenir ? PÉTERHOFF : Dans un instant. J'ai pris les devants, pour me réchauffer plus vite. Brrr !
Ce n’est pas par là… Brrr ! quel froid ! Les dents castagnettent. Il faut remonter.
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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