brodequin

/\bʁɔd.kɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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brodequin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chaussure de peau ou d’étoffe qui couvre le pied et le bas de la jambe et se lace sur le dessus du pied. Pronounced \bʁɔd.kɛ̃\.

Key facts for brodequin
PropertyValue
Headwordbrodequin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁɔd.kɛ̃\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

brodequin is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for brodequin is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɔd.kɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for brodequin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 brodequin, spelled B-R-O-D-E-Q-U-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chaussure de peau ou d’étoffe qui couvre le pied et le bas de la jambe et se lace sur le dessus du pied.
  2. 2
    Chaussure que portaient les acteurs de comédie.
  3. 3
    Chaussure que portent les coureurs cyclistes.
  4. 4
    Torture qui se donnait avec des planches et des coins dont on serrait fortement les jambes de l’accusé.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brodequin"?
"brodequin" is spelled B-R-O-D-E-Q-U-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁɔd.kɛ̃\.
What does "brodequin" mean?
As a noun, "brodequin" means: Chaussure de peau ou d’étoffe qui couvre le pied et le bas de la jambe et se lace sur le dessus du pied.
How do you pronounce "brodequin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brodequin" is \bʁɔd.kɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brodequin" come from?
"brodequin" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.