broder
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,815
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
broder is aFrenchverb. It means: Garnir au moyen d’une aiguille de dessins en relief d’or, d’argent, de soie, de laine ou plus souvent de coton. Pronounced \bʁɔ.de\. Often confused with brome and Brody.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁɔ.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for broder is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɔ.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,815 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for broder, with forms such as "bbroder", "brdoer", and "brodder". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brome", "Brody", "broyé", and more, 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 broder, spelled B-R-O-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Garnir au moyen d’une aiguille de dessins en relief d’or, d’argent, de soie, de laine ou plus souvent de coton.
- 2Faire de la broderie.
- 3Tracer ou faire apparaître dans le temps des motifs qui rappellent ceux de la broderie, mais sur des supports et avec des techniques ou selon des processus qui s’en éloignent plus ou moins, parfois radicalement.
- 4Ajouter à un récit des détails, des circonstances souvent fausses, mais qui sont ou que l’on croit propres à le rendre plus piquant, plus intéressant.
- 5Coudre le bord d’un chapeau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbroder,brdoer,brodder,broderr,brodre,broedr,brroder,rboder
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Misspelling Variants of "broder"
Frequency rank: #43,815 in French
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