brûlèrent

\bʁy.lɛʁ\

/\bʁy.lɛʁ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brûlèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for brûlèrent
PropertyValue
Headwordbrûlèrent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bʁy.lɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#90,496
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « brûlèrent » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).brûlèrenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « buenas » (#90,497), « burkinabés » (#90,498), « brouillonne » (#90,493). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brûlèrent » est au #90,496. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe brûler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how brûlèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brûlèrent"?
"brûlèrent" is spelled B-R-Û-L-È-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁy.lɛʁ\.
What does "brûlèrent" mean?
As a verb, "brûlèrent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe brûler.
How do you pronounce "brûlèrent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brûlèrent" is \bʁy.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brûlèrent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brûlèrent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list