brode

/\bʁɔd\/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#64,291

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

brode is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe broder. Pronounced \bʁɔd\.

Key facts for brode
PropertyValue
Headwordbrode
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bʁɔd\
Letters5
Frequency rank#64,291
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of brode in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for brode is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɔd\. Corpus data places it at rank #64,291 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for brode in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 brode, spelled B-R-O-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe broder.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe broder.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe broder.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe broder.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent du verbe broder.

Frequency rank: #64,291 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brode"?
"brode" is spelled B-R-O-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁɔd\.
What does "brode" mean?
As a verb, "brode" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe broder.
How do you pronounce "brode"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brode" is \bʁɔd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brode" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.