brûlèrent
\bʁy.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“brûlèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,496 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,496
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe brûler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brulerent · brûlèrent · French
brûlèrent · rank #90,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,496
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buenas
Nearest frequency peer: buenas (+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 « brûlèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brouilleurs
brouilleurs
9,509 corpus weight
- brouillonne
brouillonne
9,508 corpus weight
- brûlèrent
brûlèrent
9,505 corpus weight
- buenas
buenas
9,504 corpus weight
- burkinabés
burkinabés
9,503 corpus weight
- bâiller
bâiller
9,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brûlèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brûlèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁy.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brûlèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brûlèrent is uncommon French at frequency #90,496 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁy.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe brûler.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for brûlèrent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brûlèrent, spelled B-R-Û-L-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe brûler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brûlèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses paumes le démangèrent, puis le brûlèrent.
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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