bro
\bʁɔ\
The verdict
“bro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,067) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,067
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme membre d’un fraternité universitaire nord-américaine ou ayant adopté cette culture, favorisant les autres hommes membres de son groupe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bro · bro · French
bro · rank #20,067 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,067
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brendan
Nearest frequency peer: Brendan (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bro »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bouddhiste
bouddhiste
79,937 corpus weight
- boycotter
boycotter
79,936 corpus weight
- Brendan
Brendan
79,935 corpus weight
- bro
bro
79,934 corpus weight
- brosser
brosser
79,933 corpus weight
- brouillon
brouillon
79,932 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bro » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bro »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bro is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bʁɔ\. Frequency #20,067 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bro, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "BS", 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 bro, spelled B-R-O.
Definition
- 1Homme membre d’un fraternité universitaire nord-américaine ou ayant adopté cette culture, favorisant les autres hommes membres de son groupe.
- 2Ami proche et fidèle, presque comme un frère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dépeint sous les traits d’un étudiant blanc et musculeux, calqué sur les bros des fraternités élitistes des facs américaines, il impose aux gamins de l’école - puis à la ville entière - les idéaux progressistes du moment.
Ce qui distingue un bro d’un ami, ce sont les faits qui viennent ainsi : un bro est toujours là en cas de pépin, quand un ami ne viendra que le lendemain ….
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).