prendre une brosse
\pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\
The verdict
“prendre une brosse” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’enivrer en buvant de l’alcool, brosser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre une brosse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prendre une brosse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre une brosse is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "S’enivrer en buvant de l’alcool, brosser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for prendre une brosse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prendre une brosse, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -U-N-E- -B-R-O-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1S’enivrer en buvant de l’alcool, brosser.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “prendre une brosse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -U-N-E- -B-R-O-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.