broue

/\bʁu\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#79,117

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

broue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mousse accumulée à la surface d’un liquide, et en particulier de la bière. Pronounced \bʁu\.

Key facts for broue
PropertyValue
Headwordbroue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁu\
Letters5
Frequency rank#79,117
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of broue in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for broue is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁu\. Corpus data places it at rank #79,117 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for broue 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 broue, spelled B-R-O-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mousse accumulée à la surface d’un liquide, et en particulier de la bière.
  2. 2
    Bière.
  3. 3
    Liquide de fabrication artisanale pouvant être distillé pour fabriquer de l’alcool.
  4. 4
    Écume de la mer ou de l’océan, par comparaison avec l’écume de la bière.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #79,117 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "broue"?
"broue" is spelled B-R-O-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁu\.
What does "broue" mean?
As a noun, "broue" means: Mousse accumulée à la surface d’un liquide, et en particulier de la bière.
How do you pronounce "broue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "broue" is \bʁu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "broue" come from?
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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.