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brochette

/bɹəʊˈʃɛt/noun

brochette is spelled B-R-O-C-H-E-T-T-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, brochette means “A small skewer or spit on which small pieces of meat, fish or vegetables are roasted or broiled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of brochette is brochettes.

How many letters and syllables are in brochette?

Letters9: B-R-O-C-H-E-T-T-E
In writingabout once in every 76 million words; the 275,970th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is brochette?

Brochette appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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 brochette?

  • /bɹəʊˈʃɛt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-brochette.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of brochette

  • brochettes plural

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

What does brochette mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A small skewer or spit on which small pieces of meat, fish or vegetables are roasted or broiled.

  2. 2

    Food cooked on such a device.

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

Where does brochette come from?

Borrowed from French brochette, diminutive of broche (“spit”).

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

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