bruit

Questions about bruit

What does bruit mean?

bruit means "tell or spread rumors".

How many syllables are in bruit?

bruit has 2 syllables and divides as bru-it under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bruit?

Close synonyms include rumor, rumour. 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 bruit a common word?

bruit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.