brunelle
\bʁy.nɛl\
The verdict
“brunelle” is uncommon French (frequency #80,005 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,005
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des labiées qui passe pour astringente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brunelle · brunelle · French
brunelle · rank #80,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,005
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brunehaut
Nearest frequency peer: Brunehaut (-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 « brunelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brahmi
brahmi
20,000 corpus weight
- brimer
brimer
19,999 corpus weight
- Brunehaut
Brunehaut
19,997 corpus weight
- brunelle
brunelle
19,996 corpus weight
- bsr
bsr
19,995 corpus weight
- bubonique
bubonique
19,993 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brunelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brunelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁy.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brunelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brunelle is uncommon French at frequency #80,005 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁy.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante de la famille des labiées qui passe pour astringente.".
brunelle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is brunelle, spelled B-R-U-N-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des labiées qui passe pour astringente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brunelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'été couronné d'origan et de brunelles bleues vint et passa.
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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