bravache
\bʁa.vaʃ\
The verdict
“bravache” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui feint la bravoure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bravache · bravache · French
bravache · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bravache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bʁa.vaʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bravache » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bravache is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bʁa.vaʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui feint la bravoure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bravache, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bravache, spelled B-R-A-V-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Qui feint la bravoure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bravache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le châtelain, vicomte Aymery de Pontgibaud, nous accueillit par un discours bravache, nous expliquant que jusqu’à présent notre vie avait été une rigolade, mais que les choses, nous allions le vérifier, changeaient aujourd’hui même.
La période que nous vivons a besoin de courage, pas du courage qui divise, pas du courage bravache qui consiste à définir des formes de souveraineté qui seraient un souverainisme de repli, une non coopération, une fragmentation.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.