brooch
/bɹoʊt͡ʃ/noun, verb
brooch is spelled B-R-O-O-C-H: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “broach vs brooch” about 320 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, brooch means “A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of brooch is brooches.
How many letters and syllables are in brooch?
| Letters | 6: B-R-O-O-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.1 times per million words; the 27,462nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is brooch?
Brooch appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd 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 brooch?
- UK /bɹəʊtʃ/
- US /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/
- US /bɹut͡ʃ/
Brooch has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-brooch.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with brooch
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: broach (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: broach.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with brooch?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as brooch from its last stressed vowel (/oʊtʃ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of brooch
- brooches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- brooching participle, present
- brooched participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does brooch mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
- 2
A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
verb
- 1
To adorn as with a brooch.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Brooch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense jewellery with pin:
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 brooch come from?
Variant of broach.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).