brace
/bɹeɪs/
"brace" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brace” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,820
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Armor for the arm; vambrace.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brace · brace · English
brace · rank #10,820 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,820
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bleed
Nearest frequency peer: bleed (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “brace”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- awakening
awakening
89,186 corpus weight
- bilateral
bilateral
89,184 corpus weight
- bleed
bleed
89,183 corpus weight
- brace
brace
89,181 corpus weight
- caption
caption
89,179 corpus weight
- choke
choke
89,177 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “brace” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brace |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɹeɪs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brace” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around brace (IPA /bɹeɪs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,820 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 17 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for brace, with forms such as "barce", "bbrace", and "bracce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brad", "brag", "brat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English brace, from Old French brace (“arm”), from Latin bracchia, the nominative and accusative plural of bracchium (“arm”). The correct English form is brace, spelled B-R-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Armor for the arm; vambrace.
- 2A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
- 3A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- 4That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- 5A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- 6A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- 7The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- 8Harness; warlike preparation.
- 9A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- 10A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- 11A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- 12A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- 13The mouth of a shaft.
- 14Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- 15A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- 16Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- 17Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a brace and bit
The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.
Etymology
From Middle English brace, from Old French brace (“arm”), from Latin bracchia, the nominative and accusative plural of bracchium (“arm”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barce
- bbrace
- bracce
- braec
- brcae
- brrace
- rbace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brace - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "brace" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "brad". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,820 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.