brune
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,155
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme ou fille ayant une chevelure allant de marron à noir. Pronounced \bʁyn\. It ranks #7,155 in French word frequency. Often confused with bun and bue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁyn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brune is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁyn\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,155 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 brune, with forms such as "bbrune", "brnue", and "brrune". 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, "bun", "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 brune, spelled B-R-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femme ou fille ayant une chevelure allant de marron à noir.
- 2Bière à forte fermentation, fabriquée à partir de malt très torréfié.
- 3Cigarette à base de tabac brun.
- 4La brune désigne le moment de la journée où le soleil est en train de se coucher et n’est plus complètement visible. Lorsqu’il disparaît, mais que la lumière reste encore présente, il s’agit du crépuscule. À cette courte période de la journée correspond, le matin, l’aube, où le soleil est en train de se lever, sans être encore complètement visible. Le crépuscule correspond de même à l’aurore, lorsque la lumière commence avant que le soleil ne soit visible.
- 5Race laitière de grand taurin, originaire de Suisse, à robe brune et aux muqueuses noires.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrune,brnue,brrune,bruen,brunne,burne,rbune
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brune
Misspelling Variants of "brune"
Frequency rank: #7,155 in French
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