brunettes
\bʁy.nɛt\
The verdict
“brunettes” is uncommon French (frequency #96,706 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,706
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de brunet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brunettes · brunettes · French
brunettes · rank #96,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,706
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bruch
Nearest frequency peer: Bruch (-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 « brunettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Breitman
Breitman
3,301 corpus weight
- brestoise
brestoise
3,300 corpus weight
- Brionnais
Brionnais
3,299 corpus weight
- Bruch
Bruch
3,296 corpus weight
- brunettes
brunettes
3,295 corpus weight
- bréchet
bréchet
3,293 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brunettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brunettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁy.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brunettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brunettes is uncommon French at frequency #96,706 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁy.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de brunet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brunettes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brunettes, spelled B-R-U-N-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de brunet.
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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