brouhaha
/ˈbɹuː.hɑː.hɑː/
"brouhaha" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brouhaha” is uncommon English (frequency #78,439 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,439
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stir; a fuss or uproar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brouhaha · brouhaha · English
brouhaha · rank #78,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brontosaurus
Nearest frequency peer: brontosaurus (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “brouhaha”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- briefer
briefer
21,568 corpus weight
- brims
brims
21,566 corpus weight
- Brittan
Brittan
21,565 corpus weight
- brontosaurus
brontosaurus
21,564 corpus weight
- brouhaha
brouhaha
21,562 corpus weight
- bullcrap
bullcrap
21,558 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brouhaha” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouhaha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹuː.hɑː.hɑː/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brouhaha” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brouhaha is uncommon English at frequency #78,439 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɹuː.hɑː.hɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A stir; a fuss or uproar.".
brouhaha doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French brouhaha, but disputed as to where from before that. Possibly from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “welcome”, literally “blessed is he who comes”). The correct English form is brouhaha, spelled B-R-O-U-H-A-H-A.
Definition
- 1A stir; a fuss or uproar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brouhaha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It caused quite a brouhaha when the school suspended one of its top students for refusing to adhere to the dress code.
For as they were maneuvering the cylinder onto a dolly, it split and dumped one ton of chlorine trifluoride onto the floor. It chewed its way through twelve inches of concrete and dug a three-foot hole in the gravel underneath, filled the place with fumes which corroded everything in sight, and, in general, made one hell of a mess. Civil Defense turned ou…
Etymology
Borrowed from French brouhaha, but disputed as to where from before that. Possibly from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “welcome”, literally “blessed is he who comes”).
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).