braie
\bʁɛ\
The verdict
“braie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Large pantalon, serré par le bas, que portaient plusieurs peuples de l’Antiquité. ^([1&2]) Note d’usage : Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “braie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for braie is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for braie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is braie, spelled B-R-A-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Large pantalon, serré par le bas, que portaient plusieurs peuples de l’Antiquité. ^([1&2]) Note d’usage : Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.
- 2Garniture de fer du manche d’un marteau de forge.
- 3Garniture en toile du trou du gouvernail sur un bateau. ^([1]) ^([2])
- 4Linge pour le derrière d’un enfant. ^([2])
- 5Outil de cirier pour écraser la cire. ^([2])
- 6Morceau de papier découpé de façon à protéger les blancs, en laissant à découvert les parties à imprimer. Peau sur le tympan, frisquette non montée. ^([2])
- 7Pièce montée par deux pour soulager les meules d’un moulin à vent. ^([2])
- 8Ceinture de fortes palissades ou de maçonnerie que les ingénieurs du XVIᵉ siècle construisaient en avant de l’enceinte d’une place pour en couvrir le pied contre les batteries de l’ennemi.
- 9Morceau de cuir ou de toile goudronnée qui recouvre les coins des étambrais des mâts et des pompes, pour empêcher le passage de l’eau.
- 10Filet ayant la forme d’un chalut, fixe et maintenu ouvert par des perches, dont l’entrée est dirigée vers la côte.
This word in other languages
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Using “braie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-A-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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