bras mort
\bʁa mɔʁ\
The verdict
“bras mort” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie relictuelle de l’ancien cours d’un cours d’eau, dans lequel l’eau ne passe plus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bras-mort · bras mort · French
bras mort · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bras mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bras mort is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁa mɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bras mort, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bras mort, spelled B-R-A-S- -M-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Partie relictuelle de l’ancien cours d’un cours d’eau, dans lequel l’eau ne passe plus.
- 2Canalisation où l’eau stagne pendant une longue période (tuyau pincé à son extrémité suite à la suppression d’un robinet, canalisation d’un robinet qui ne sert jamais, canalisation en attente de raccord).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bras mort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A un stade plus avancé, les bras morts en voie d'assèchement présentent un complexe où il est facile pourtant de déceler, parmi les groupements qui s’interfèrent, l’association initiale.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.