break

/\bʁɛk\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,793

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

break is aFrenchnoun. It means: Automobile dont le coffre est agrandi en hauteur et peut généralement communiquer avec l'habitacle en baissant le dossier de la banquette arrière amovible pour augmenter le volume utile. Pronounced \bʁɛk\. It ranks #7,793 in French word frequency. Often confused with bref and Brel.

Key facts for break
PropertyValue
Headwordbreak
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁɛk\
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,793
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for break is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɛk\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,793 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for break, with forms such as "bbreak", "berak", and "braek". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bref", "Brel", "bret", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Automobile dont le coffre est agrandi en hauteur et peut généralement communiquer avec l'habitacle en baissant le dossier de la banquette arrière amovible pour augmenter le volume utile.
  2. 2
    Voiture hippomobile destinée au dressage des chevaux
  3. 3
    Type de voiture hippomobile qui a un siège élevé sur le devant et deux banquettes sur le derrière, dans le sens de la longueur et se faisant face.
  4. 4
    Courte interruption de la rythmique, de une à quelques mesures, à la fin de l'exposé d'un thème (ou d'une section de thème), pour lancer un solo.
  5. 5
    Courte pause.
  6. 6
    Congé.
  7. 7
    Jeu gagné par le receveur, par le joueur qui ne sert pas.
  8. 8
    Danse d’origine nord-américaine liée à la culture hip-hop impliquant des figures acrobatiques au sol, des poses et des balancements des jambes.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbreak,berak,braek,breakk,breka,brreak,rbeak

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for break

Misspelling Variants of "break"

bbreak6berak5braek5breakk6breka5brreak6rbeak5
Misspelling Variants of "break"

Frequency rank: #7,793 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "break"?
"break" is spelled B-R-E-A-K. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁɛk\.
What does "break" mean?
As a noun, "break" means: Automobile dont le coffre est agrandi en hauteur et peut généralement communiquer avec l'habitacle en baissant le dossier de la banquette arrière amovible pour augmenter le volume utile.
What words are commonly confused with "break"?
"break" is commonly confused with "bref", "Brel", "bret". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "break"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "break" is \bʁɛk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "break" come from?
"break" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.