braye
\bʁɛj\
The verdict
“braye” is uncommon French (frequency #63,576 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,576
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fange, boue, terre grasse dont on fait les murs de bauge, le corroi dont on enduit les bassins des fontaines et les chaussées des étangs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-braye · braye · French
braye · rank #63,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,576
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH briseur
Nearest frequency peer: briseur (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « braye »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouillabais…
bouillabaisse
36,428 corpus weight
- bound
bound
36,427 corpus weight
- braye
braye
36,425 corpus weight
- briseur
briseur
36,424 corpus weight
- Brits
Brits
36,423 corpus weight
- bruine
bruine
36,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « braye » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « braye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
braye is uncommon French at frequency #63,576 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fange, boue, terre grasse dont on fait les murs de bauge, le corroi dont on enduit les bassins des fontaines et les chaussées des étangs.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for braye, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 braye, spelled B-R-A-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Fange, boue, terre grasse dont on fait les murs de bauge, le corroi dont on enduit les bassins des fontaines et les chaussées des étangs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how braye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De larges douves autour, avec balustrades, et qui, bordées d’une fausse braye, formaient socle et promenade.
Synonyms
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.
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