brin
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,462
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pousse que le grain ou la graine émet d’abord hors de terre. Pronounced \bʁɛ̃\. Often confused with bro and bun.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brin is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,462 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for brin, with forms such as "bbrin", "birn", and "brinn". 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, "bro", "bun", "brut", 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 brin, spelled B-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pousse que le grain ou la graine émet d’abord hors de terre.
- 2Toute petite partie de certaines choses longues et minces.
- 3Segment droit d'un câble compris deux poulies ou serre-câble.
- 4Fibre optique élémentaire d'un même câble (l'équivalent du toron pour un câble métallique).
- 5Filasse de lin ou de chanvre, de première qualité.
- 6Très petite quantité de certaines choses, un peu.
- 7Toute petite partie de certaines tâches.
- 8Pousses grêles et allongées des arbres, des arbustes, des plantes.
- 9Jet de bois sortant d’une souche restée en terre après que l’arbre a été coupé.
- 10…
- 11Cordage qui soutient la partie mobile du palan.
- 12Qualité de la toile à voile, ou des matelots.
- 13Tringle en bois. L’une des sections d’une canne à pêche qui s’emboitent l’une dans l’autre.
- 14Bordel → voir bringue.
- 15Étant donné un ensemble A de n points du disque unité ouvert D de ℂ, application b continue de [0, 1] dans D telle que b(0) et b(1) appartiennent à A.
- 16Merde.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrin,birn,brinn,brni,brrin,rbin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brin
Misspelling Variants of "brin"
Frequency rank: #10,462 in French
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