binvsbrunWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: bin is a unknown, brun is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“bin” is an unknown and “brun” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#86
“bin” frequency rank
#48,026
“brun” frequency rank
48112
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bin brun
Definition 1. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ von sein braun

Letter map: bin vs brun

Shared letters muted; letters that set bin and brun apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
bin
4 ch
brun

Part-of-speech tell for bin / brun

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bin is anunknown and brunanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48112, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bin is recorded at frequency rank #86, classified as anunknown, pronounced [bɪn]. brun is at rank #48,026, tagged as anadj, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 48112, this pair ranks #1,260,408 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of bin vs brun

Shared letters: bn. Private to "bin": i. Private to "brun": ru.

"bin" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "brun" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • brunbbrun · brnu · brrun · brunn · rbun

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "bin" and "brun" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bin" is an unknown and "brun" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "bin" or "brun" show up more?
"bin" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #86 in our German list, against #48,026 for "brun". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "bin" vs "brun" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bin" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "brun" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,260,408 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bin" and "brun" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "brun vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,260,408 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list