prendre une brosse

/\pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\/ verb

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

prendre une brosse is aFrenchverb. It means: S’enivrer en buvant de l’alcool, brosser. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\.

Key facts for prendre une brosse
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre une brosse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre une brosse is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prendre une brosse is 18 letters long, classified as averb, 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prendre une brosse in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 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 prendre une brosse, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -U-N-E- -B-R-O-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    S’enivrer en buvant de l’alcool, brosser.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre une brosse"?
"prendre une brosse" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -U-N-E- -B-R-O-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\.
What does "prendre une brosse" mean?
As a verb, "prendre une brosse" means: S’enivrer en buvant de l’alcool, brosser.
How do you pronounce "prendre une brosse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre une brosse" is \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn bʁɔs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prendre une brosse" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.