brin

/\bʁɛ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for brin
PropertyValue
Headwordbrin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁɛ̃\
Letters4
Frequency rank#10,462
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Pousse que le grain ou la graine émet d’abord hors de terre.
  2. 2
    Toute petite partie de certaines choses longues et minces.
  3. 3
    Segment droit d'un câble compris deux poulies ou serre-câble.
  4. 4
    Fibre optique élémentaire d'un même câble (l'équivalent du toron pour un câble métallique).
  5. 5
    Filasse de lin ou de chanvre, de première qualité.
  6. 6
    Très petite quantité de certaines choses, un peu.
  7. 7
    Toute petite partie de certaines tâches.
  8. 8
    Pousses grêles et allongées des arbres, des arbustes, des plantes.
  9. 9
    Jet de bois sortant d’une souche restée en terre après que l’arbre a été coupé.
  10. 10
  11. 11
    Cordage qui soutient la partie mobile du palan.
  12. 12
    Qualité de la toile à voile, ou des matelots.
  13. 13
    Tringle en bois. L’une des sections d’une canne à pêche qui s’emboitent l’une dans l’autre.
  14. 14
    Bordel → voir bringue.
  15. 15
    Étant 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.
  16. 16
    Merde.

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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"

bbrin5birn4brinn5brni4brrin5rbin4
Misspelling Variants of "brin"

Frequency rank: #10,462 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brin"?
"brin" is spelled B-R-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁɛ̃\.
What does "brin" mean?
As a noun, "brin" means: Pousse que le grain ou la graine émet d’abord hors de terre.
What words are commonly confused with "brin"?
"brin" is commonly confused with "bro", "bun", "brut". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brin" is \bʁɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brin" come from?
"brin" 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.