cahier de brouillon
\ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“cahier de brouillon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cahier sur lequel l’élève fait d’abord ses exercices et travaux écrits avant de les recopier au propre sur un autre support.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cahier-de-brouillon · cahier de brouillon · French
cahier de brouillon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cahier de brouillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cahier de brouillon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cahier de brouillon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cahier sur lequel l’élève fait d’abord ses exercices et travaux écrits avant de les recopier au propre sur un autre support.".
cahier de brouillon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cahier de brouillon, spelled C-A-H-I-E-R- -D-E- -B-R-O-U-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Cahier sur lequel l’élève fait d’abord ses exercices et travaux écrits avant de les recopier au propre sur un autre support.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cahier de brouillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque élève qui suivra un cours devra avoir un cahier de papier blanc, dit cahier de brouillon, et deux cahiers de papier de musique ….
Le cahier de brouillon est celui sur lequel les enfants rédigent la minute de tous les devoirs. Il est écrit au courant de la plume ; ….
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.