brod
\ˈbroːt\
The verdict
“brod” is uncommon French (frequency #86,487 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,487
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brodañ/brodiñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brod · brod · French
brod · rank #86,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,487
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brisons
Nearest frequency peer: brisons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « brod »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bres
bres
13,517 corpus weight
- Breuer
Breuer
13,516 corpus weight
- brisons
brisons
13,515 corpus weight
- brod
brod
13,514 corpus weight
- bronzées
bronzées
13,513 corpus weight
- bréda
bréda
13,511 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brod » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brod |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbroːt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brod » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brod is uncommon French at frequency #86,487 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈbroːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
brod doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is brod, spelled B-R-O-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe brodañ/brodiñ.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe brodañ/brodiñ.
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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