brus
\bʁy\
The verdict
“brus” is uncommon French (frequency #85,539 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,539
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bru.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brus · brus · French
brus · rank #85,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,539
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH broyeuse
Nearest frequency peer: broyeuse (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « brus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brewery
brewery
14,465 corpus weight
- broyeuse
broyeuse
14,463 corpus weight
- brus
brus
14,462 corpus weight
- bugger
bugger
14,461 corpus weight
- Burnet
Burnet
14,460 corpus weight
- buron
buron
14,459 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁy\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brus is uncommon French at frequency #85,539 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bru.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for brus, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is brus, spelled B-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bru.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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