brève
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,347
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brève is aFrenchnoun. It means: Syllabes, voyelles qu’on prononce rapidement. Pronounced \bʁɛv\. It ranks #8,347 in French word frequency. Often confused with brie and buée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brève |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brève is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɛv\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,347 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for brève, with forms such as "bbrève", "breve", and "brrève". 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, "brie", "buée", "Brise", 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 brève, spelled B-R-È-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Syllabes, voyelles qu’on prononce rapidement.
- 2Signe diacritique des alphabets latin et cyrillique qui marque cette prononciation rapide : ◌̆, ou avec chasse : ˘.
- 3Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de passereaux des forêts tropicales de l’Ancien Monde, à queue très courte, formant la famille des pittidés.
- 4Information par définition courte.
- 5Version abrégée d'un acte rédigée en présence des parties par le notaire qui s’est déplacé
- 6Figure de note dont la valeur est égale à la moitié d’une longue ou deux semi-brèves. Équivalent à la carrée moderne.
- 7Produit d’une seule fonte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrève,breve,brrève,brvèe,brèev,brèvve,bèrve,rbève
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brève
Misspelling Variants of "brève"
Frequency rank: #8,347 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "brève"?
What does "brève" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "brève"?
How do you pronounce "brève"?
What language does "brève" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: