bris
French, noun/bʁi/
bris is spelled B-R-I-S (4 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bris is a French masculine noun meaning “shattering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rupture faite, le plus souvent avec violence, d’un scellé, d’une porte fermée, d’une clôture”.
What does bris mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshattering
- 2
masculinebreach
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rupture faite, le plus souvent avec violence, d’un scellé, d’une porte fermée, d’une clôture. 2. Interruption. 3. Pièces d’un navire, d’une embarcation qui s’est défoncée, brisée en donnant contre les rochers ou sur les bancs. 4. Bande de fer fixant une porte sur ses gonds.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce bris?
- /bʁi/
- \bʁi\
- [bʁi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bris
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bris in French?
bris appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).