brassard
\bʁa.saʁ\
The verdict
“brassard” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #19,461 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,461
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cercle de plastique, de tissu ou de papier laminé qu’on porte au bras comme signe distinctif dans certaines cérémonies ou assemblées, ou encore dans certains services militaires et dans les ambulan...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brassard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa.saʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brassard” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brassard is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁa.saʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,461 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brassard, with forms such as "barssard", "bbrassard", and "brasard". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "brasser", "Brossard", "Bastard", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is brassard, spelled B-R-A-S-S-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Cercle de plastique, de tissu ou de papier laminé qu’on porte au bras comme signe distinctif dans certaines cérémonies ou assemblées, ou encore dans certains services militaires et dans les ambulances, permettant de s'identifier ou de déclarer son appartenance à une organisation.
- 2Cercle de tissu blanc porté au bras gauche par les garçons lors de leur communion solennelle.
- 3Cercle de tissu qui est porté au bras comme signe de deuil.
- 4Pièce des anciennes armures qui couvrait le bras de l’homme de guerre.
- 5Espèce de garniture de cuir ou du cylindre de bois dont on se couvre le bras pour jouer au ballon.
- 6Bande gonflable, se mettant autour des bras d’un petit enfant, pour lui servir de bouée peu encombrante. — (brassard sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia , consulté le 22 juin 2016)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: barssard,bbrassard,brasard,brasasrd,brassadr,brassardd,brassarrd,brassrad,brrassard,brsasard,rbassard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brassard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “brassard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-A-S-S-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁa.saʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “brasser” - see the side-by-side comparison. brassard vs brasser
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.