brume
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,870
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brume is aFrenchnoun. It means: Brouillard avec une visibilité supérieure à un kilomètre, surtout en parlant des brouillards de mer. Pronounced \bʁym\. Often confused with bum and bue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁym\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brume is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁym\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,870 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 brume, with forms such as "bbrume", "brmue", and "brrume". 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, "bum", "bue", "brut", 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 brume, spelled B-R-U-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Brouillard avec une visibilité supérieure à un kilomètre, surtout en parlant des brouillards de mer.
- 2Brouillard qui ne dépose aucune humidité.
- 3Ce qui empêche l’entendement ou la conscience d’une chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrume,brmue,brrume,bruem,brumme,burme,rbume
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "brume"
Frequency rank: #14,870 in French
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