brochette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,649
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
brochette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite broche de fer, de bois, et quelquefois d’argent, dont on se sert, soit pour assujettir la viande à la broche, soit pour faire rôtir ou griller de petites pièces de gibier, des rognons de mou... Pronounced \bʁɔ.ʃɛt\. Often confused with brouette and brochettes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brochette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔ.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brochette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɔ.ʃɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,649 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for brochette, with forms such as "bbrochette", "borchette", and "brcohette". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "brouette", "brochettes", "brochet", 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 brochette, spelled B-R-O-C-H-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite broche de fer, de bois, et quelquefois d’argent, dont on se sert, soit pour assujettir la viande à la broche, soit pour faire rôtir ou griller de petites pièces de gibier, des rognons de mouton et d’autres viandes.
- 2Petites pièces de gibier, des rognons de veau, des morceaux de foie, des petits poissons, etc., ainsi rôtis ou grillés.
- 3Petite broche qui sert à porter ensemble plusieurs croix ou médailles.
- 4ou Ensemble de personnes ou de choses malfaisantes, inopportunes, fâcheuses, etc.
- 5Petite trigle de fer qui attachait la frisquette au châssis du tympan.
- 6Échelle campanaire.
- 7Baguette servant de mesure.
- 8Cheville destinée à tendres les peaux lors de la fabrication du parchemin.
- 9Cheville destinée à tendres les peaux lors de la fabrication du parchemin.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrochette,borchette,brcohette,brocchette,brocehtte,brochete,brochetet,brochhette,brochtete,brohcette,brrochette,rbochette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brochette
Misspelling Variants of "brochette"
Frequency rank: #26,649 in French
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