broc
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,177
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
broc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Récipient portatif d’une assez grande capacité, communément de bois, garni de cercles de fer ou de cuivre, qui a une anse et un bec évasé et dont on se sert ordinairement pour tirer ou transporter ... Pronounced \bʁo\. Often confused with brut and brun.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for broc is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,177 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 broc, with forms such as "bbroc", "borc", and "brco". 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, "brut", "brun", "bros", 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 broc, spelled B-R-O-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récipient portatif d’une assez grande capacité, communément de bois, garni de cercles de fer ou de cuivre, qui a une anse et un bec évasé et dont on se sert ordinairement pour tirer ou transporter de l’eau ou du vin.
- 2Ce qu’un broc peut contenir.
- 3Cruche en métal servant dans les cantines pour l’eau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbroc,borc,brco,brocc,brroc,rboc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "broc"
Frequency rank: #38,177 in French
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