brasse
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,653
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brasse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne mesure de la longueur des deux bras étendus, qui variait selon les régions. Pronounced \bʁas\. Often confused with Brise and brave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brasse is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁas\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,653 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for brasse, with forms such as "barsse", "bbrasse", and "brase". 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, "Brise", "brave", "brosse", 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 brasse, spelled B-R-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ancienne mesure de la longueur des deux bras étendus, qui variait selon les régions.
- 2Unité de mesure du bois de chauffage valant plus ou moins 3 à 4 stères, selon les régions.
- 3Unité de mesure de la profondeur de la mer, de valeur variable selon les nations.
- 4Espace parcouru dans l’eau par le nageur à chaque déploiement des bras et coup de jarret.
- 5Style de nage se pratiquant sur le ventre avec des actions successives, coordonnées et symétriques des jambes et des bras.
- 6Brasque.
- 7Discours.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: barsse,bbrasse,brase,brases,brrasse,brsase,rbasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brasse
Misspelling Variants of "brasse"
Frequency rank: #20,653 in French
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