brasserie

/\bʁas.ʁi\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,531

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

brasserie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où on brasse de la bière. Pronounced \bʁas.ʁi\. Often confused with brasseries and brasser.

Key facts for brasserie
PropertyValue
Headwordbrasserie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁas.ʁi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#11,531
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of brasserie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for brasserie is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁas.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,531 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 brasserie, with forms such as "barsserie", "bbrasserie", and "braserie". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "brasseries", "brasser", "brassée", 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 brasserie, spelled B-R-A-S-S-E-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu où on brasse de la bière.
  2. 2
    Société qui fabrique de la bière et la met en marché.
  3. 3
    Industrie de la fabrication de la bière.
  4. 4
    Établissement populaire où l’on vend des boissons, notamment de la bière, au détail, et des mets sans prétention.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: barsserie,bbrasserie,braserie,brasesrie,brasseire,brasserei,brasserrie,brassreie,brrasserie,brsaserie,rbasserie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brasserie

Misspelling Variants of "brasserie"

barsserie9bbrasserie10braserie8brasesrie9brasseire9brasserei9brasserrie10brassreie9
Misspelling Variants of "brasserie"

Frequency rank: #11,531 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brasserie"?
"brasserie" is spelled B-R-A-S-S-E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁas.ʁi\.
What does "brasserie" mean?
As a noun, "brasserie" means: Lieu où on brasse de la bière.
What words are commonly confused with "brasserie"?
"brasserie" is commonly confused with "brasseries", "brasser", "brassée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brasserie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brasserie" is \bʁas.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brasserie" come from?
"brasserie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.