brosse
\bʁɔs\
The verdict
“brosse” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,816 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,816
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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 ...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “brosse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brosse is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for brosse, with forms such as "bbrosse", "borsse", and "brose". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is brosse, spelled B-R-O-S-S-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrosse,borsse,brose,broses,brrosse,brsose,rbosse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brosse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “brosse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-O-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁɔs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “broyé” - see the side-by-side comparison. brosse vs broyé
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.