bruno

/\ˈbru.no\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,663

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

bruno is aFrenchnoun. It means: Brun, couleur plutôt sombre mélangeant jaune, rouge et noir. – #993300. Pronounced \ˈbru.no\. It ranks #3,663 in French word frequency. Often confused with bun and brut.

Key facts for bruno
PropertyValue
Headwordbruno
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈbru.no\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,663
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bruno is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈbru.no\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,663 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Brun, couleur plutôt sombre mélangeant jaune, rouge et noir. – #993300.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bruno, with forms such as "bbruno", "brnuo", and "brruno". 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", "brut", "Bund", 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 bruno, spelled B-R-U-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Brun, couleur plutôt sombre mélangeant jaune, rouge et noir. – #993300.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbruno,brnuo,brruno,brunno,bruon,burno,rbuno

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bruno

Misspelling Variants of "bruno"

bbruno6brnuo5brruno6brunno6bruon5burno5rbuno5
Misspelling Variants of "bruno"

Frequency rank: #3,663 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bruno"?
"bruno" is spelled B-R-U-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈbru.no\.
What does "bruno" mean?
As a noun, "bruno" means: Brun, couleur plutôt sombre mélangeant jaune, rouge et noir. – #993300.
What words are commonly confused with "bruno"?
"bruno" is commonly confused with "bun", "brut", "Bund". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bruno"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bruno" is \ˈbru.no\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bruno" come from?
"bruno" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.