brut
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,835
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brut is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est dans l’état grossier où la nature l’a produit. Pronounced \bʁyt\. It ranks #4,835 in French word frequency. Often confused with bu and BT.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \bʁyt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brut is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁyt\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,835 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for brut, with forms such as "bbrut", "brrut", and "brtu". 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, "bu", "BT", "but", 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 brut, spelled B-R-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans l’état grossier où la nature l’a produit.
- 2Qui n’a pas encore été cultivé, en parlant d’un terrain.
- 3Qui n’a pas encore été taillé, poli.
- 4Qui se présente en bloc, avant d’être débité puis taillé, en parlant du marbre.
- 5Qui n’a pas subi de fermentation supplémentaire, de seconde transformation.
- 6Dont l’état est grossier, sans éducation, en parlant des manières ou de l’esprit.
- 7Qui n’a pas fait l’objet d’une élaboration intellectuelle.
- 8Dont rien n’a été déduit, sans avoir pris en compte les coûts et les frais.
- 9Dont la quantité est mesurée avec la tare.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrut,brrut,brtu,brutt,rbut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brut
Misspelling Variants of "brut"
Frequency rank: #4,835 in French
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