# brunch

> English word · Noun · IPA /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/ · frequency rank #15,765

## Definitions
1. A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a leisurely, festive, and/or social way, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.

## Etymology
Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.

## Easily confused with
- **bunch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-bunch)
- **brush** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-brush)
- **Bruno** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-bruno)
- **butch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-butch)
- **Busch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-busch)
- **brunt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-brunt)
- **Burch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-burch)
- **Bruni** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-bruni)
- **Brunei** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brunch-vs-brunei)
- **bruh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bruh-vs-brunch)
- **bench** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bench-vs-brunch)
- **Bruce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bruce-vs-brunch)
- **branch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/branch-vs-brunch)
- **breach** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/breach-vs-brunch)
- **bounce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bounce-vs-brunch)
- **bouncy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bouncy-vs-brunch)
- **brooch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/brooch-vs-brunch)
- **bronco** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bronco-vs-brunch)
- **breech** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/breech-vs-brunch)
- **Baruch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baruch-vs-brunch)

## Common misspellings (10)
`bbrunch`, `brnuch`, `brrunch`, `brucnh`, `bruncch`, `brunchh`, `brunhc`, `brunnch`, `burnch`, `rbunch`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/brunch