branche
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,985
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
branche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie ramifiée et aérienne d’un arbre depuis le tronc. Pronounced \bʁɑ̃ʃ\. It ranks #2,985 in French word frequency. Often confused with branle and brèche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | branche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for branche is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɑ̃ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,985 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for branche, with forms such as "barnche", "bbranche", and "bracnhe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "branle", "brèche", "broche", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 branche, spelled B-R-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie ramifiée et aérienne d’un arbre depuis le tronc.
- 2Structure qui se subdivise de la manière ci-dessus ; chacune des différentes parties ou divisions de certaines choses.
- 3Structure qui se subdivise de la manière ci-dessus ; chacune des différentes parties ou divisions de certaines choses.
- 4Diverses choses qui ont avec les branches des arbres un certain rapport de forme et de position.
- 5Famille différente qui sort d’une même lignée.
- 6Version d’un logiciel, d’un ensemble de fichiers ; contrairement aux révisions, qui se succèdent dans le temps, les branches peuvent coexister.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: barnche,bbranche,bracnhe,brancche,branceh,branchhe,branhce,brannche,brnache,brranche,rbanche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for branche
Misspelling Variants of "branche"
Frequency rank: #2,985 in French
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