brace
\bʁas\
The verdict
“brace” is uncommon French (frequency #83,666 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,666
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Casaque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brace · brace · French
brace · rank #83,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,666
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouzar
Nearest frequency peer: bouzar (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « brace »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bouyer
Bouyer
16,337 corpus weight
- bouzar
bouzar
16,336 corpus weight
- brace
brace
16,335 corpus weight
- Brandenburg
Brandenburg
16,334 corpus weight
- briant
briant
16,333 corpus weight
- briard
briard
16,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brace » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brace » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brace is uncommon French at frequency #83,666 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Casaque.".
brace doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is brace, spelled B-R-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Casaque.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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