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Bramley

/ˈbɹæmli/noun

Bramley is a noun meaning “A cultivar of apple, used especially as a cooking apple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-R-A-M-L-E-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Bramley is Bramleys.

What does Bramley mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A cultivar of apple, used especially as a cooking apple.

    Bramleys are a good choice when making pies.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Bramley?

  • /ˈbɹæmli/

Bramley has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Bramley

  • Bramleys plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Bramley?

Bramley appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does Bramley come from?

Named after butcher Matthew Bramley, who owned the tree from which cuttings were taken in the mid-1800s.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).