bring along

verb

"bring-along" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“bring along” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To escort or carry an item or person to a destination.

Corpus desk

Index EN-bring-along · bring along · English

bring along · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for bring along
PropertyValue
Headwordbring along
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “bring along” in English

bring alongranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bring along is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for bring along in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is bring along, spelled B-R-I-N-G- -A-L-O-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    To escort or carry an item or person to a destination.
  2. 2
    To be responsible for convincing or causing a group to join alongside oneself.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bring along appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. You should bring a bottle of wine along.
  2. If we get Jerry, he'll bring along most of the executive committee for the vote.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bring along"?
"bring along" is spelled B-R-I-N-G- -A-L-O-N-G.
What does "bring along" mean?
As a verb, "bring along" means: To escort or carry an item or person to a destination.
What language does "bring along" come from?
"bring along" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list