brassière

/\bʁa.sjɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#53,819

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

brassière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de petite camisole qui sert à maintenir le corps et qui est particulièrement en usage pour les enfants. Petite chemise de bébé, courte, à manches longues, en toile fine ou en laine, qui se f... Pronounced \bʁa.sjɛʁ\.

Key facts for brassière
PropertyValue
Headwordbrassière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁa.sjɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#53,819
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for brassière is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁa.sjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,819 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for brassière in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 brassière, spelled B-R-A-S-S-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de petite camisole qui sert à maintenir le corps et qui est particulièrement en usage pour les enfants. Petite chemise de bébé, courte, à manches longues, en toile fine ou en laine, qui se ferme dans le dos.
  2. 2
    Lanière de cuir, d’étoffe ou corde qui sert à porter sur le dos un sac ou une hotte, et que l’on se passe sous les bras.
  3. 3
    Bouée de sauvetage que l’on passe autour du bras, utilisée principalement par les enfants.
  4. 4
    Chemise de femme, très ajustée.
  5. 5
    Soutien-gorge.
  6. 6
    Canal, bras de fleuve.

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Frequency rank: #53,819 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brassière"?
"brassière" is spelled B-R-A-S-S-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁa.sjɛʁ\.
What does "brassière" mean?
As a noun, "brassière" means: Espèce de petite camisole qui sert à maintenir le corps et qui est particulièrement en usage pour les enfants. Petite chemise de bébé, courte, à manches longues, en toile fine ou en laine, qui se f...
How do you pronounce "brassière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brassière" is \bʁa.sjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brassière" come from?
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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.