brûleur
\bʁy.lœʁ\
The verdict
“brûleur” is uncommon French (frequency #55,793 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,793
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui brûle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bruleur · brûleur · French
brûleur · rank #55,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,793
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bry
Nearest frequency peer: Bry (-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 « brûleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- broke
broke
44,211 corpus weight
- bruissement
bruissement
44,210 corpus weight
- Bry
Bry
44,209 corpus weight
- brûleur
brûleur
44,208 corpus weight
- Buzyn
Buzyn
44,207 corpus weight
- cachera
cachera
44,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brûleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brûleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁy.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brûleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brûleur is uncommon French at frequency #55,793 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁy.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
brûleur has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is brûleur, spelled B-R-Û-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui brûle.
- 2Celui qui fait brûler, qui distille une boisson ou un moût alcoolisé, pour en faire de l’eau-de-vie.
- 3Appareil servant à brûler un combustible.
- 4Élément réglant la combustion sur un appareil destiné à produire une flamme.
- 5Dispositif d’une gazinière produisant la flamme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brûleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les aliments détaillés en menus morceaux sont sautés très rapidement avec très peu de matière grasse dans un récipient hémisphérique placé sur un brûleur très puissant.
@*X!! J'entends leur brûleur!
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).