braille

1. 1.

   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)

   SynonymsLouis Braille

   Broadereducator
2. 2.

   a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals

   Broaderpoint system

1. 1.

   transcribe in braille

   Broadertransliterate

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.