brode
\bʁɔd\
The verdict
“brode” is uncommon French (frequency #64,291 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,291
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe broder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brode · brode · French
brode · rank #64,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,291
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bridée
Nearest frequency peer: bridée (-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 « brode »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Breil
Breil
35,714 corpus weight
- breuvages
breuvages
35,713 corpus weight
- bricoleurs
bricoleurs
35,712 corpus weight
- bridée
bridée
35,711 corpus weight
- brode
brode
35,710 corpus weight
- burgondes
burgondes
35,707 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brode » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɔd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brode » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brode is uncommon French at frequency #64,291 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁɔd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brode, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is brode, spelled B-R-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe broder.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe broder.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe broder.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe broder.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent du verbe broder.
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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