brung
/ˈbɹʌŋ/
"brung" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brung” is uncommon English (frequency #86,089 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,089
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of bring
Corpus desk
Index EN-brung · brung · English
brung · rank #86,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,089
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Broglie
Nearest frequency peer: Broglie (-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 “brung”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brane
brane
13,917 corpus weight
- Broglie
Broglie
13,914 corpus weight
- brung
brung
13,912 corpus weight
- BTO
BTO
13,910 corpus weight
- bubbler
bubbler
13,909 corpus weight
- buckthorn
buckthorn
13,908 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brung” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brung |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbɹʌŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brung” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brung is uncommon English at frequency #86,089 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbɹʌŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of bring".
brung has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps by analogy with other strong verbs, but compare also the Old English past forms brunge, brungon and past participle variant brungen (“brought”). The correct English form is brung, spelled B-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of bring
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I had enough left for coffee and two orders of beans and bread, the second of which I made sandwiches from and brung them back for my brother Bill.
Who's the pretty filly you brung along?
Etymology
Perhaps by analogy with other strong verbs, but compare also the Old English past forms brunge, brungon and past participle variant brungen (“brought”).
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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