brush
\brʌʃ\
The verdict
“brush” is uncommon French (frequency #66,552 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,552
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-brush · brush · French
brush · rank #66,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,552
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brrr
Nearest frequency peer: brrr (-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 « brush »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brade
brade
33,454 corpus weight
- brotherhood
brotherhood
33,451 corpus weight
- brrr
brrr
33,450 corpus weight
- brush
brush
33,449 corpus weight
- Burg
Burg
33,446 corpus weight
- Byblos
Byblos
33,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « brush » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brush |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \brʌʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « brush » en français
Rare enough to double-check
brush is uncommon French at frequency #66,552 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \brʌʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brush, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is brush, spelled B-R-U-S-H.
Definition
- 1Brosse.
- 2Pinceau.
- 3Queue de quelques animaux, en particulier du renard.
- 4Brousse, broussaille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brush appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soldier! Get down on your hands and knees, and scrub the floor with this brush.
paint brush.
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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