brimade
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
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Misspellings
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brimade is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épreuve que les anciens imposent aux nouveaux dans les régiments, dans les écoles, etc. Pronounced \bʁi.mad\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brimade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.mad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for brimade is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁi.mad\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for brimade in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 brimade, spelled B-R-I-M-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Épreuve que les anciens imposent aux nouveaux dans les régiments, dans les écoles, etc.
- 2Punition des parents aux enfants consistant en une privation.
- 3Mesure ou traitement de nature inutile et vexatoire.
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