brûleur

\bʁy.lœʁ\

/\bʁy.lœʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for brûleur
PropertyValue
Headwordbrûleur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁy.lœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#55,793
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « brûleur » en français

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Bry » (#55,792), « Buzyn » (#55,794), « bruissement » (#55,791). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brûleur » est au #55,793. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Celui qui brûle.
  2. 2
    Celui qui fait brûler, qui distille une boisson ou un moût alcoolisé, pour en faire de l’eau-de-vie.
  3. 3
    Appareil servant à brûler un combustible.
  4. 4
    Élément réglant la combustion sur un appareil destiné à produire une flamme.
  5. 5
    Dispositif d’une gazinière produisant la flamme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. @*X!! J'entends leur brûleur!

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brûleur"?
"brûleur" is spelled B-R-Û-L-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁy.lœʁ\.
What does "brûleur" mean?
As a noun, "brûleur" means: Celui qui brûle.
How do you pronounce "brûleur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brûleur" is \bʁy.lœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brûleur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list