brosse
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,816
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brosse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ustensile servant à nettoyer les vêtements, les meubles, etc., et fait ordinairement d’un assemblage de poils de cochon ou de sanglier, quelquefois de crins de cheval, de brins menus de bruyère ou ... Pronounced \bʁɔs\. It ranks #8,816 in French word frequency. Often confused with broyé and brousse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brosse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brosse is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɔs\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,816 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for brosse, with forms such as "bbrosse", "borsse", and "brose". 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, "broyé", "brousse", "brosser", 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 brosse, spelled B-R-O-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ustensile servant à nettoyer les vêtements, les meubles, etc., et fait ordinairement d’un assemblage de poils de cochon ou de sanglier, quelquefois de crins de cheval, de brins menus de bruyère ou de chiendent, etc.
- 2Ustensile servant à nettoyer les vêtements, les meubles, etc., et fait ordinairement d’un assemblage de poils de cochon ou de sanglier, quelquefois de crins de cheval, de brins menus de bruyère ou de chiendent, etc.
- 3Large pinceau dont se servent les peintres en bâtiment.
- 4Type de pinceau d’artistes à poils durs et fermes (soies de porc) pour une utilisation avec des peintures en pâtes (huile, acrylique), par opposition au pinceau à poils fins et souples (martre, petit gris) pour les peintures plus liquides et les médiums aqueux (aquarelle, gouache).
- 5Touffes de poils qu’ont les jambes de devant des cerfs, des antilopes et aussi de celles que présente le tarse de certains insectes et notamment des abeilles.
- 6Touffe de poils, de soies ou de cheveux.
- 7Touffe de poils, de soies ou de cheveux.
- 8Touffe de poils, de soies ou de cheveux.
- 9Haie bordant un bois pour le protéger des vents, des animaux ; broussaille, terre inculte.
- 10Soûlerie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrosse,borsse,brose,broses,brrosse,brsose,rbosse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brosse
Misspelling Variants of "brosse"
Frequency rank: #8,816 in French
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