bruant
\bʁy.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“bruant” is uncommon French (frequency #64,989 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,989
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit passereau granivore au bec court et conique et dont le mâle est souvent vivement coloré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bruant · bruant · French
bruant · rank #64,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,989
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brom
Nearest frequency peer: Brom (-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 « bruant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- broch
broch
35,015 corpus weight
- brochets
brochets
35,014 corpus weight
- Brom
Brom
35,013 corpus weight
- bruant
bruant
35,012 corpus weight
- brûlera
brûlera
35,010 corpus weight
- BST
BST
35,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bruant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bruant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁy.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bruant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bruant is uncommon French at frequency #64,989 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁy.ɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit passereau granivore au bec court et conique et dont le mâle est souvent vivement coloré.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bruant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bruant, spelled B-R-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Petit passereau granivore au bec court et conique et dont le mâle est souvent vivement coloré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bruant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bruant zizi ressemble au bruant jaune par la taille, la silhouette et le comportement, mais il est plus petit et plus compact.
Ce bruant construit son nid généralement au sol, souvent sur les monticules de linaigrettes (Eriophorum ssp.) et sous des gaules d’épinettes ou de mélèzes.
Synonyms
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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