bride
\bʁid\
The verdict
“bride” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #17,636 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #17,636
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Harnais placé sur la tête du cheval et destiné à l’arrêter ou à le diriger, selon la volonté du cavalier.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bride |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bride” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bride is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bride, with forms such as "bbride", "birde", and "brdie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bride, spelled B-R-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Harnais placé sur la tête du cheval et destiné à l’arrêter ou à le diriger, selon la volonté du cavalier.
- 2Les rênes seules.
- 3Obstacle ; frein ; retenue.
- 4Lien pour retenir certaines coiffures qui passe ou qu’on noue sous le menton.
- 5Espèce de boutonnière qui se fait aux manches et aux cols des femmes pour les fixer à un bouton.
- 6Points aux deux extrémités d’une boutonnière pour empêcher qu’elle ne se déchire.
- 7Maille échappée dans un bas de soie.
- 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.
- 9Filaments 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.
- 10Sorte de grande crampe qui lie le bout de la quille avec l’étambot.
- 11Pièce de la batterie d’une arme à feu.
- 12Outil de charron.
- 13Lien de fer pour assujettir une pièce de bois, un tuyau de conduite, etc.
- 14Plaque de fer, utilisée par les plombiers, carrée et évidée en rond dans le milieu, pour tenir lieu de soudure.
- 15Sorte de point d’Alençon dont le tissu est beaucoup plus fort que le réseau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbride,birde,brdie,bridde,bried,brride,rbide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bride - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “bride”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-I-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁid\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “brin” - see the side-by-side comparison. bride vs brin
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.