bruyère
French, noun/bʁɥi.jɛʁ/
bruyère is spelled B-R-U-Y-È-R-E (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bruyère is a French feminine noun meaning “heather, heath, briar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante ligneuse du genre Erica, dont le feuillage est toujours vert et qui croît dans des terrains incultes…”.
What does bruyère mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineheather, heath, briar
- 2
femininea place of briars, a moor
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante ligneuse du genre Erica, dont le feuillage est toujours vert et qui croît dans des terrains incultes et sablonneux. 2. Nom donné à plusieurs autres plantes de la famille des Éricacées appartenant aux genres Bruckenthalia, Calluna (les callunes), Daboecia et Pentapera entre autres. 3. Lieu où croissent ces plantes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bruyère
- bruyères plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bruyère?
- /bʁɥi.jɛʁ/
- \bʁɥi.jɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bruyère
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bruyère in French?
bruyère appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).