brung
/ˈbɹʌŋ/
"brung" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brung” is an uncommon English word, ranked #86,089 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #86,089
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of bring
| 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) |
Where “brung” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for brung is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɹʌŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #86,089 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “brung”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-U-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbɹʌŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.