bruh
/bɹʌ/noun, interjection
bruh is spelled B-R-U-H. The wrong spelling people search most is bruhe: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 667 of all searches for the word. Bruh is a noun meaning “Alternative form of bro (“male comrade or friend”)”. The plural of bruh is bruhs.
How many letters and syllables are in bruh?
| Letters | 4: B-R-U-H |
|---|---|
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,731st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bruhe, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
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); 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 do you spell bruh?
Bruh is spelled B-R-U-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 674 of the searches for bruh in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is bruh?
Bruh appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st 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 bruh?
- /bɹʌ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-bruh-noun.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with bruh
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: bro, bru, bruh moment.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with bruh?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as bruh.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: burh.
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 bruh
- bruhs plural
- bru
- breh
- bryh
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bruh mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangAlternative form of bro (“male comrade or friend”).
- 2
obsoleteThe rhesus macaque.
interjection
- 1
slangExpressing amazement or shock.
You're moving to Greenland? Bruh!
- 2
slangExpressing a feeling that something is stupid, inappropriate, useless or even weird to say, think or do.
Person 1: I poured canola oil into my car engine! Person 2: Bruh.
- 3
slangExpressing disappointment.
Person 1: Your favorite show got cancelled! Person 2: Bruh.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bruh in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense amazement or shock:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | total |
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 bruh come from?
Clipping of brother originating in African-American Vernacular English. Predates, but perhaps influenced, other slang clippings spelled with -h. This is a phonetic clipping: /ˈbɹʌðɚ/ → /bɹʌ/. Contrast bro, which is a clipping of the spelling of brother rather than the pronunciation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).