braze
/bɹeɪz/verb, noun
braze is spelled B-R-A-Z-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, braze means “To cover with brass, or as with brass” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in braze?
| Letters | 5: B-R-A-Z-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is braze?
Braze appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).
How do you pronounce braze?
- /bɹeɪz/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-braze.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with braze
Sounds like: braise (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with braze?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as braze.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: zebra.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of braze
- brazes present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- brazing participle, present
- brazed participle, past
- braise
- braize
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does braze mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To cover with brass, or as with brass.
- 2
To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
- 3
obsoleteTo burn or temper in fire.
noun
- 1
A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Braze in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and d:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | braser |
| Portuguese | brasar |
| Spanish | soldar fuertemente / al fuerte |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does braze come from?
From Middle English brasen, from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), from bræs (“brass”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).