bring
/ˈbɹɪŋ/
"bring" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bring” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #537. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #537
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bring · bring · English
bring · rank #537 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #537
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH wasn't
Nearest frequency peer: wasn't (-1 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 “bring”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- son
son
99,467 corpus weight
- street
street
99,466 corpus weight
- wasn't
wasn't
99,465 corpus weight
- bring
bring
99,464 corpus weight
- college
college
99,463 corpus weight
- current
current
99,462 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bring” 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 | bring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbɹɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bring” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bring (IPA /ˈbɹɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #537 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bring, with forms such as "bbring", "birng", and "brign". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Brit", "Bryn", "bung", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-. Compare Scots bring, West Frisian bringe, Low German brengen, … The correct English form is bring, spelled B-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- 2To supply or contribute.
- 3To occasion or bring about.
- 4To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- 5To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- 6To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- 7To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- 8To move a piece into a more active position, esp. to initially develop it.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
Etymology
From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-. Compare Scots bring, West Frisian bringe, Low German brengen, Dutch brengen, Afrikaans bring, German bringen; also Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbring
- birng
- brign
- bringg
- brinng
- brnig
- brring
- rbing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bring - 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.
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "bring" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Brit". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #537 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.