# bramble

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbɹæm.bəl/ · frequency rank #49,228

## Definitions
1. Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
2. Any thorny shrub.
3. A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
4. The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
5. A collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.

## Etymology
From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *brāmil, diminutive of *brām (English broom).

## Easily confused with
- **bumble** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bramble-vs-bumble)
- **babble** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/babble-vs-bramble)
- **braille** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/braille-vs-bramble)

## Common misspellings (11)
`barmble`, `bbramble`, `brabmle`, `brambble`, `brambel`, `bramblle`, `bramlbe`, `brammble`, `brmable`, `brramble`, `rbamble`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bramble