brasse

\bʁas\

/\bʁas\/ noun

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The verdict

“brasse” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,653
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne mesure de la longueur des deux bras étendus, qui variait selon les régions.

Corpus desk

Index FR-brasse · brasse · French

brasse · rank #20,653 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,653
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH brillent

Nearest frequency peer: brillent (+1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « brasse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « brasse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

brasse vs Brise
50% similar
brasse vs brave
67% similar
brasse vs brosse
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for brasse
PropertyValue
Headwordbrasse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁas\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,653
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « brasse »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.brassese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « brillent » (#20,654), « bouleverser » (#20,651), « Bucarest » (#20,655). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « brasse » est au #20,653. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around brasse (IPA \bʁas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,653 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for brasse, with forms such as "barsse", "bbrasse", and "brase". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Brise", "brave", "brosse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brasse, spelled B-R-A-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne mesure de la longueur des deux bras étendus, qui variait selon les régions.
  2. 2
    Unité de mesure du bois de chauffage valant plus ou moins 3 à 4 stères, selon les régions.
  3. 3
    Unité de mesure de la profondeur de la mer, de valeur variable selon les nations.
  4. 4
    Espace parcouru dans l’eau par le nageur à chaque déploiement des bras et coup de jarret.
  5. 5
    Style de nage se pratiquant sur le ventre avec des actions successives, coordonnées et symétriques des jambes et des bras.
  6. 6
    Brasque.
  7. 7
    Discours.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how brasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. BRASSE. Mesure de longueur. La brasse en usage en Italie est généralement une mesure d’aunage, qui dérive vraisemblablement de la longueur du bras, d’où le nom de braccio. Dans d’autres pays, la brasse, servant principalement au toisé et à l’arpentage, est d’une longueur beaucoup plus considérable et doit sans doute son origine à la mesure naturelle repré…
  2. Ils allaient haricotant les restes du Grand-I-Vert, ceux des châteaux ; car, à eux deux, dans les années les plus occupées, les plus prospères, ils n’avaient jamais pu fabriquer en moyenne trois cents soixante brasses de corde.

Synonyms

toise marine

This word in other languages

fathom(English)braza(Español)Klafter(Deutsch)braça(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • barsse
  • bbrasse
  • brase
  • brases
  • brrasse
  • brsase
  • rbasse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brasse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

barsse2bbrasse1brase1brases2brrasse1brsase2rbasse2
Edit distance from "brasse"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brasse"?
"brasse" is spelled B-R-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁas\.
What does "brasse" mean?
As a noun, "brasse" means: Ancienne mesure de la longueur des deux bras étendus, qui variait selon les régions.
What words are commonly confused with "brasse"?
"brasse" is commonly confused with "Brise", "brave", "brosse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brasse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brasse" is \bʁas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brasse" come from?
"brasse" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brasse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bobine#20,649beauty#20,644bandit#20,640Bailly#20,638

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

boisé7 variantsbloom7 variantscarpe7 variantscondo7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list