bred
\bɹɛd\
The verdict
“bred” is uncommon French (frequency #80,948 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,948
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit du verbe breed.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bred · bred · French
bred · rank #80,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,948
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brien
Nearest frequency peer: Brien (+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 « bred »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brandissait
brandissait
19,056 corpus weight
- braquet
braquet
19,055 corpus weight
- bred
bred
19,053 corpus weight
- Brien
Brien
19,052 corpus weight
- briquettes
briquettes
19,051 corpus weight
- Brisset
Brisset
19,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bred » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bred |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɹɛd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bred » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bred is uncommon French at frequency #80,948 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɹɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bred in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bred, spelled B-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit du verbe breed.
- 2Participe passé du verbe breed.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).