bracket
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "bracket", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "bracket" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "bracket" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
bracket is aEnglishnoun. It means: A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf. Pronounced /ˈbɹækɪt/. It ranks #9,018 in English word frequency. Often confused with brake and bucket.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bracket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹækɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bracket is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɹækɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,018 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for bracket, with forms such as "barcket", "bbracket", and "braccket". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "brake", "bucket", "brakes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old O… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is bracket, spelled B-R-A-C-K-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
- 2Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- 3A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- 4The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
- 5Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
- 6Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
- 7A diagram of games in a tournament.
- 8A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- 9One of several ranges of numbers.
- 10A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
- 11Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
- 12The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
- 13a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
Etymology
From earlier bragget, *bracket, from Middle English *braget, *braket (attested in braket nail), from Old French braguette (“the opening in the fore part of a pair of breeches, one's fly”), a diminutive of Old French brague (“knickers, britches”), from Old Occitan braga, from Latin brāca (“pants”), from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, an early form of Proto-Germanic *brōks (“leggings, breeches, trousers”).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: barcket,bbracket,braccket,bracekt,brackett,brackket,brackte,brakcet,brcaket,brracket,rbacket
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bracket
Misspelling Variants of "bracket"
Frequency rank: #9,018 in English
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