braye
\bʁɛj\
The verdict
“braye” is uncommon French (frequency #63,576 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,576
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “braye” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
braye is uncommon French at frequency #63,576 among 227,490 “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.
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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Using “braye”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-A-Y-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁɛj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.