brumeuse
\bʁy.møz\
The verdict
“brumeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #72,982 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,982
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de brumeux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brumeuse · brumeuse · French
brumeuse · rank #72,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,982
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brosnan
Nearest frequency peer: Brosnan (-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 « brumeuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bromont
Bromont
27,021 corpus weight
- Brosnan
Brosnan
27,020 corpus weight
- brumeuse
brumeuse
27,019 corpus weight
- Bundesbank
Bundesbank
27,017 corpus weight
- burst
burst
27,016 corpus weight
- bégaie
bégaie
27,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brumeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brumeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁy.møz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brumeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brumeuse is uncommon French at frequency #72,982 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁy.møz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de brumeux.".
brumeuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brumeuse, spelled B-R-U-M-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de brumeux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brumeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il traverse l’Apocalypse ; Pâle, il a la mort sur son dos. Sa grande aile brumeuse éclipse La lune devant Ténédos.
Mais, comme la nuit s’annonçait brumeuse, il arrangea la toile qui recouvrait la vedette de telle manière que la rosée s’y déposant glissât dans une sorte de rigole et vînt tomber dans une écope de bois.
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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