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brownie

brown·ie/ˈbɹaʊni/noun

brownie is spelled B-R-O-W-N-I-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables (brown·ie). It appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, brownie means “A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of brownie is brownies.

How many letters and syllables are in brownie?

Letters7: B-R-O-W-N-I-E
Syllables2: brown·ie
In writing1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is brownie?

Brownie appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd 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 brownie?

  • US /ˈbɹaʊni/

Brownie has 2 syllables, split brown·ie in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_brownie.ogg, EN-AU_ck1_Brownie2.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with brownie?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as brownie from its last stressed vowel (/aʊni/):

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 brownie

  • brownies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does brownie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.

    Order for the brownie was placed but it took half an hour to prepare it.

  2. 2

    AustraliaA sweet bread with brown sugar and currants.

  3. 3

    A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.

  4. 4

    A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.

  5. 5

    A household spirit or revered ancestor.

  6. 6

    Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.

  7. 7

    informalA brown trout (Salmo trutta).

  8. 8

    informalA widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.

noun

as Brownie
  1. 1

    AustraliaCanadaUKA junior Girl Guide.

  2. 2

    USA junior Girl Scout.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Brownie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbrownie (small rich cake)
GermanBrownie (small rich cake), Heinzelmännchen (helpful elf)
Portuguesebrownie (small rich cake)

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 brownie come from?

From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots. For sense 7, compare with Dutch kabouter (“a very young female member of the scout movement”) (literally "gnome").

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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