brayer
French, noun/bʁɛ.je/
brayer is spelled B-R-A-Y-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brayer is a French masculine noun meaning “truss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bandage destiné à contenir les hernies”.
What does brayer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to coat with pitch
noun
- 1
masculinetruss
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bandage destiné à contenir les hernies. 2. Ceinture de cuir à poche qui sert à porter une bannière. 3. Courroie qui maintient le battant d’une cloche. 4. Pièce de fer qui maintient le fléau d’une balance.
verb: 1. Enduire de brai.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of brayer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- brayant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- brayé participle past
- braye first-person indicative present
- braie first-person indicative present
- brayes indicative present second-person
- braies indicative present second-person
- brayons first-person indicative plural
- brayez indicative plural present
- brayent indicative plural present
- braient indicative plural present
- brayais first-person imperfect indicative
- brayait imperfect indicative singular
- brayions first-person imperfect indicative
- brayiez imperfect indicative plural
- brayaient imperfect indicative plural
- brayai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brayer?
- /bʁɛ.je/
- /bʁe.je/
- \bʁɛ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is brayer in French?
brayer appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).