brose
noun
brose is spelled B-R-O-S-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Brose, the name). As a noun, brose means “Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of brose is broses.
How many letters and syllables are in brose?
| Letters | 5: B-R-O-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is brose?
Brose appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Brose, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce brose?
Brose 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).
What rhymes with brose?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as brose.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sober.
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 brose
- broses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does brose mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
ScotlandOatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk.
I had not far to seek for him: he stood waiting in the passage, for the cooling of his brose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does brose come from?
From the Doric dialect of North East Scotland, from earlier browes, from Old French broez, nominative of broet (“stew, soup made from meat broth”) (French brouet) diminutive of breu, from Medieval Latin brodium, from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”). See broth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).