braille

Other forms of braille

plural

brailles·

past tense

brailled·

present participle

brailling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about braille

What does braille mean?

braille means "French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in braille?

braille has 1 syllable: braille. In IPA it is /ˈbɹeɪl/.

What is another word for braille?

Close synonyms include Louis Braille. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is braille a common word?

braille is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.