bras
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#785
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bras is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du membre supérieur des humains (et des bipèdes en général) qui s’étend depuis l’épaule (qui la relie au tronc) jusqu’au coude (qui la relie à l’avant-bras). Pronounced \bʁa\. It ranks #785 in French word frequency. Often confused with BS and bus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bras is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #785 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for bras, with forms such as "bbras", "brras", and "brsa". 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, "BS", "bus", "BTS", 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 bras, spelled B-R-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie du membre supérieur des humains (et des bipèdes en général) qui s’étend depuis l’épaule (qui la relie au tronc) jusqu’au coude (qui la relie à l’avant-bras).
- 2Membre supérieur des humains et autres bipèdes.
- 3Objet qui ressemble ou qui tient le bras.
- 4Brimbale.
- 5Personne pour accomplir une tâche manuelle.
- 6(Suivi d'un adjectif ou d'un complément de nom caractérisant la nature du pouvoir en cause) Instrument (d'une entité plus grande) jouant un rôle concret dans un domaine particulier.
- 7Subdivision latérale d’un fleuve ou d’une rivière qu’une île sépare de son cours principal.
- 8Ramification s’écartant du tronc d’un arbre en espalier ou d’un cep de vigne.
- 9Cordage situé au vent qui permet de régler l’écartement d’une voile d’avant.
- 10Meuble représentant un bras tendu ou simplement un avant-bras et une main dans les armoiries. Il est utilisé lorsqu’il n’est pas nécessaire de préciser si on a affaire à un bras droit ou gauche. À rapprocher de dextrochère, main et senestrochère ou sénestrochère.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbras,brras,brsa,rbas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bras
Misspelling Variants of "bras"
Frequency rank: #785 in French
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