braire
\bʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“braire” is uncommon French (frequency #96,697 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,697
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pousser son cri en parlant d’un âne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braire · braire · French
braire · rank #96,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,697
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH braies
Nearest frequency peer: braies (-2 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 « braire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boutades
boutades
3,308 corpus weight
- boutonnières
boutonnières
3,307 corpus weight
- braies
braies
3,306 corpus weight
- braire
braire
3,304 corpus weight
- brawl
brawl
3,302 corpus weight
- Breitman
Breitman
3,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « braire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « braire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
braire is uncommon French at frequency #96,697 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
braire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is braire, spelled B-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pousser son cri en parlant d’un âne.
- 2Brailler, gueuler.
- 3Pleurer.
- 4Faire braire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how braire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet âne brait, braira, brairait.
Je me remis à braire ; cette fois personne ne me répondit ; je devinai que les voleurs, pour empêcher mes camarades de les trahir, leur avaient attaché des pierres à la queue. Tout le monde sait que, pour braire, nous dressons notre queue ; ne pouvant pas la dresser à cause du poids de la pierre, mes camarades se taisaient.
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); 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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