Brom
\bʀoːm\
The verdict
“Brom” is uncommon French (frequency #64,988 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,988
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brome (l’élément chimique Br).
Corpus desk
Index FR-brom · Brom · French
Brom · rank #64,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,988
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brochets
Nearest frequency peer: brochets (-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 « Brom »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brillera
brillera
35,016 corpus weight
- broch
broch
35,015 corpus weight
- brochets
brochets
35,014 corpus weight
- Brom
Brom
35,013 corpus weight
- bruant
bruant
35,012 corpus weight
- brûlera
brûlera
35,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Brom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʀoːm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Brom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Brom is uncommon French at frequency #64,988 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʀoːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Brome (l’élément chimique Br).".
Zero misspellings are on record for Brom in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Brom, spelled B-R-O-M.
Definition
- 1Brome (l’élément chimique Br).
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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