bractée
\bʁak.te\
The verdict
“bractée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feuille fréquemment colorée qui accompagne une fleur ou une inflorescence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bractee · bractée · French
bractée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bractée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁak.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bractée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁak.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Feuille fréquemment colorée qui accompagne une fleur ou une inflorescence.".
bractée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bractée, spelled B-R-A-C-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Feuille fréquemment colorée qui accompagne une fleur ou une inflorescence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bractée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nappe est étalée sur un charmant tapis de plantes alpines, parmi lesquelles brille la Paronyque à feuilles de serpolet, dont les larges et minces bractées ressemblent à des écailles d’argent.
L’involucre, cette collerette de bractées finement découpées qui entourent l’inflorescence chez certaines espèces, chez les ombellifères en particulier, ne constitue jamais, comme chez la nigelle de Damas, l’attrait principal de la plante.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.