breaks

/\bʁɛk\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#44,338

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

breaks is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de break. Pronounced \bʁɛk\. Often confused with brefs and brebis.

Key facts for breaks
PropertyValue
Headwordbreaks
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁɛk\
Letters6
Frequency rank#44,338
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for breaks is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɛk\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,338 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de break.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for breaks, with forms such as "bbreaks", "beraks", and "braeks". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "brefs", "brebis", "brooks", 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 breaks, spelled B-R-E-A-K-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de break.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbreaks,beraks,braeks,breakks,breakss,breask,brekas,brreaks,rbeaks

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for breaks

Misspelling Variants of "breaks"

bbreaks7beraks6braeks6breakks7breakss7breask6brekas6brreaks7
Misspelling Variants of "breaks"

Frequency rank: #44,338 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "breaks"?
"breaks" is spelled B-R-E-A-K-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁɛk\.
What does "breaks" mean?
As a noun, "breaks" means: Pluriel de break.
What words are commonly confused with "breaks"?
"breaks" is commonly confused with "brefs", "brebis", "brooks". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "breaks"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "breaks" is \bʁɛk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "breaks" come from?
"breaks" 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.