brokeback
adjective
brokeback is spelled B-R-O-K-E-B-A-C-K: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, brokeback means “Hunchbacked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in brokeback?
| Letters | 9: B-R-O-K-E-B-A-C-K |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 52,337th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 brokeback?
Brokeback appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th 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 brokeback?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-brokeback.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does brokeback mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
rareHunchbacked.
Damn those brokeback tramps making a mess of our city.
- 2
rareBroken; derelict.
The brokeback bridges in the hills sadden me: this place used to be beautiful.
- 3
slangHomoerotic; homosexual, gay.
I don't really think Frodo and Sam were gay, even if a couple of the scenes seemed a little brokeback to me.
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of brokeback in the homosexual sense.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Brokeback in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (slang) homoerotic – see also homoerotic:
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 brokeback come from?
From break + back; first used for "hunchback" in Carson McCullers' 1943 novella The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).