brade
\bʁad\
The verdict
“brade” is uncommon French (frequency #66,547 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,547
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brader.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brade · brade · French
brade · rank #66,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,547
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH borie
Nearest frequency peer: borie (-3 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 « brade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boisbriand
Boisbriand
33,459 corpus weight
- borie
borie
33,457 corpus weight
- brade
brade
33,454 corpus weight
- brotherhood
brotherhood
33,451 corpus weight
- brrr
brrr
33,450 corpus weight
- brush
brush
33,449 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁad\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brade is uncommon French at frequency #66,547 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brade, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 brade, spelled B-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brader.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brader.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe brader.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe brader.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe brader.
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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