bronze medal
/ˈbɹɑnz ˈmɛɾəl/
"bronze-medal" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bronze medal” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A medal made of, or having the color of, bronze, given as a prize for finishing in third place.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bronze medal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹɑnz ˈmɛɾəl/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bronze medal” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bronze medal is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɹɑnz ˈmɛɾəl/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bronze medal, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is bronze medal, spelled B-R-O-N-Z-E- -M-E-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1A medal made of, or having the color of, bronze, given as a prize for finishing in third place.
- 2Finishing in third position.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “bronze medal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-O-N-Z-E- -M-E-D-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbɹɑnz ˈmɛɾəl/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.