brute
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,937
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brute is aFrenchnoun. It means: Animal considéré comme étant privé de raison. Pronounced \bʁyt\. It ranks #7,937 in French word frequency. Often confused with but and bue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁyt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brute is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁyt\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,937 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 brute, with forms such as "bbrute", "brrute", and "brtue". 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, "but", "bue", "buts", 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 brute, spelled B-R-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animal considéré comme étant privé de raison.
- 2Bête parmi les plus dépourvues d’intelligence et de sensibilité.
- 3Homme qui n'a ni esprit ni raison.
- 4Personne qui impose une volonté par la violence.
- 5Personne qui maîtrise incontestablement un domaine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrute,brrute,brtue,bruet,brutte,burte,rbute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brute
Misspelling Variants of "brute"
Frequency rank: #7,937 in French
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