cahier de brouillons

\ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\

/\ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“cahier de brouillons” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
20
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cahier sur lequel on fait d’abord un travail écrit avant de le recopier au propre sur un autre support.

Key facts for cahier de brouillons
PropertyValue
Headwordcahier de brouillons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cahier de brouillons” sits in French frequency

cahier de brouillons falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cahier de brouillons is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cahier sur lequel on fait d’abord un travail écrit avant de le recopier au propre sur un autre support.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cahier de brouillons in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cahier de brouillons, spelled C-A-H-I-E-R- -D-E- -B-R-O-U-I-L-L-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cahier sur lequel on fait d’abord un travail écrit avant de le recopier au propre sur un autre support.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cahier de brouillons"?
"cahier de brouillons" is spelled C-A-H-I-E-R- -D-E- -B-R-O-U-I-L-L-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\.
What does "cahier de brouillons" mean?
As a noun, "cahier de brouillons" means: Cahier sur lequel on fait d’abord un travail écrit avant de le recopier au propre sur un autre support.
How do you pronounce "cahier de brouillons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cahier de brouillons" is \ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “cahier de brouillons”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-H-I-E-R- -D-E- -B-R-O-U-I-L-L-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ka.je də bʁu.jɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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