braies
\bʁɛ\
The verdict
“braies” is uncommon French (frequency #96,695 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,695
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de braie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braies · braies · French
braies · rank #96,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,695
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boutonnières
Nearest frequency peer: boutonnières (-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 « braies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bourgeonnem…
bourgeonnement
3,310 corpus weight
- bourrache
bourrache
3,309 corpus weight
- boutades
boutades
3,308 corpus weight
- boutonnières
boutonnières
3,307 corpus weight
- braies
braies
3,306 corpus weight
- braire
braire
3,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « braies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « braies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
braies is uncommon French at frequency #96,695 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de braie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for braies in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is braies, spelled B-R-A-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de braie.
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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