bride

/\bʁid\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,636

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

bride is aFrenchnoun. It means: Harnais placé sur la tête du cheval et destiné à l’arrêter ou à le diriger, selon la volonté du cavalier. Pronounced \bʁid\. Often confused with brin and brie.

Key facts for bride
PropertyValue
Headwordbride
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁid\
Letters5
Frequency rank#17,636
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bride is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁid\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,636 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 15 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 bride, with forms such as "bbride", "birde", and "brdie". 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, "brin", "brie", "brio", 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 bride, spelled B-R-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Harnais placé sur la tête du cheval et destiné à l’arrêter ou à le diriger, selon la volonté du cavalier.
  2. 2
    Les rênes seules.
  3. 3
    Obstacle ; frein ; retenue.
  4. 4
    Lien pour retenir certaines coiffures qui passe ou qu’on noue sous le menton.
  5. 5
    Espèce de boutonnière qui se fait aux manches et aux cols des femmes pour les fixer à un bouton.
  6. 6
    Points aux deux extrémités d’une boutonnière pour empêcher qu’elle ne se déchire.
  7. 7
    Maille échappée dans un bas de soie.
  8. 8
    (au pluriel) Petits tissus de fil qui servent à joindre les fleurs les unes avec les autres dans l’espèce de dentelle qu’on nomme point de France, de Venise, de Malines.
  9. 9
    Filaments membraneux que l’on trouve souvent dans le foyer des abcès ou dans les plaies profondes, et qui s’opposent à la sortie du pus, ou établissent des adhérences vicieuses.
  10. 10
    Sorte de grande crampe qui lie le bout de la quille avec l’étambot.
  11. 11
    Pièce de la batterie d’une arme à feu.
  12. 12
    Outil de charron.
  13. 13
    Lien de fer pour assujettir une pièce de bois, un tuyau de conduite, etc.
  14. 14
    Plaque de fer, utilisée par les plombiers, carrée et évidée en rond dans le milieu, pour tenir lieu de soudure.
  15. 15
    Sorte de point d’Alençon dont le tissu est beaucoup plus fort que le réseau.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbride,birde,brdie,bridde,bried,brride,rbide

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bride

Misspelling Variants of "bride"

bbride6birde5brdie5bridde6bried5brride6rbide5
Misspelling Variants of "bride"

Frequency rank: #17,636 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bride"?
"bride" is spelled B-R-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁid\.
What does "bride" mean?
As a noun, "bride" means: Harnais placé sur la tête du cheval et destiné à l’arrêter ou à le diriger, selon la volonté du cavalier.
What words are commonly confused with "bride"?
"bride" is commonly confused with "brin", "brie", "brio". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bride"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bride" is \bʁid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bride" come from?
"bride" 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.