bris
/bɹɪs/
"bris" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bris” is uncommon English (frequency #71,357 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,357
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bris · bris · English
bris · rank #71,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,357
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brickworks
Nearest frequency peer: brickworks (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “bris”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Brattleboro
Brattleboro
28,648 corpus weight
- brickworks
brickworks
28,645 corpus weight
- bris
bris
28,644 corpus weight
- broody
broody
28,643 corpus weight
- Buehler
Buehler
28,641 corpus weight
- bulla
bulla
28,640 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bris” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bris |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɹɪs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bris” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bris is uncommon English at frequency #71,357 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɹɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bris, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”). The correct English form is bris, spelled B-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.
Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).
Synonyms
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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