débroussailler
\de.bʁu.sɑ.je\
The verdict
“débroussailler” is uncommon French (frequency #97,884 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,884
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nettoyer un terrain en le débarrassant des broussailles qui l’ont envahi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debroussailler · débroussailler · French
débroussailler · rank #97,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,884
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débloquez
Nearest frequency peer: débloquez (-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 « débroussailler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dyn
dyn
2,120 corpus weight
- débloques
débloques
2,119 corpus weight
- débloquez
débloquez
2,118 corpus weight
- débroussail…
débroussailler
2,117 corpus weight
- déchargeait
déchargeait
2,116 corpus weight
- décloisonner
décloisonner
2,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débroussailler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débroussailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.bʁu.sɑ.je\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #97,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débroussailler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débroussailler is uncommon French at frequency #97,884 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.bʁu.sɑ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for débroussailler in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is débroussailler, spelled D-É-B-R-O-U-S-S-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer un terrain en le débarrassant des broussailles qui l’ont envahi.
- 2Effectuer un travail préalable de clarification.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how débroussailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai passé l’après-midi à débroussailler le sujet avant la réunion.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).