brade

\bʁad\

/\bʁad\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for brade
PropertyValue
Headwordbrade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bʁad\
Letters5
Frequency rank#66,547
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « brade » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bradetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « borie » (#66,544), « brotherhood » (#66,550), « brrr » (#66,551). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brade » est au #66,547. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brader.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brader.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe brader.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe brader.
  5. 5
    Deuxième 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brade"?
"brade" is spelled B-R-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁad\.
What does "brade" mean?
As a verb, "brade" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brader.
How do you pronounce "brade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brade" is \bʁad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brade" come from?
"brade" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list