brout
French, noun/bʁu/
brout is spelled B-R-O-U-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brout is a French masculine noun meaning “green shoot (of a plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousse des jeunes taillis au printemps”.
What does brout mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegreen shoot (of a plant)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pousse des jeunes taillis au printemps. 2. Ancienne graphie de brou ^([2]).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of brout
- brouts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brout?
- /bʁu/
- \bʁu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is brout in French?
brout appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).