brouette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,740
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
brouette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit tombereau à une roue (plus rarement deux), permettant de transporter des charges lourdes sur des chantiers ou dans un jardin et qu’on pousse d’ordinaire devant soi, ou que l'on tire si le ter... Pronounced \bʁu.ɛt\. Often confused with brunette and baguette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brouette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁu.ɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brouette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁu.ɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,740 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for brouette, with forms such as "bbrouette", "boruette", and "broeutte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "brunette", "baguette", "boulette", 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 brouette, spelled B-R-O-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit tombereau à une roue (plus rarement deux), permettant de transporter des charges lourdes sur des chantiers ou dans un jardin et qu’on pousse d’ordinaire devant soi, ou que l'on tire si le terrain monte.
- 2Désigne le contenu d’une brouette, une brouettée.
- 3Jeu dans lequel une personne marche sur les mains pendant qu’une autre lui tient les jambes à la façon des brancards d’une brouette.
- 4Position du coït durant laquelle un des partenaires se tient sur ses mains et l’autre lui tient les jambes.
- 5Sorte de véhicule, chaise à porteur montée sur deux roues que l’on rencontrait aux XVIIᵉ et XVIIIᵉ siècles.
- 6Se dit d’un véhicule, motorisé ou non, lent et souvent en mauvais état ou ancien.
- 7Se dit d’un appareil lent ou ancien.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrouette,boruette,broeutte,brouete,brouetet,broutete,brrouette,bruoette,rbouette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brouette
Misspelling Variants of "brouette"
Frequency rank: #36,740 in French
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