brassard
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,461
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
brassard is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced \bʁa.saʁ\. Often confused with brasser and Brossard.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brassard is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for brassard, with forms such as "barssard", "bbrassard", and "brasard". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "brasser", "Brossard", "Bastard", 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 brassard, spelled B-R-A-S-S-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: barssard,bbrassard,brasard,brasasrd,brassadr,brassardd,brassarrd,brassrad,brrassard,brsasard,rbassard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brassard
Misspelling Variants of "brassard"
Frequency rank: #19,461 in French
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