bringevsbrinkTell them apart

Quick tell: bringe is a verb, brink is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“bringe” is a verb and “brink” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,921
“bringe” frequency rank
#37,421
“brink” frequency rank
43342
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bringe brink
Definition 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bringen Rand, Kante (besonders an einem steil abfallenden Platz, ein Kliff oder eine Schlucht)

Letter map: bringe vs brink

Shared letters muted; letters that set bringe and brink apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
bringe
5 ch
brink

Part-of-speech tell for bringe / brink

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bringe is averb and brinkanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43342, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bringe is recorded at frequency rank #5,921, classified as averb, pronounced [ˈbʁɪŋə]. brink is at rank #37,421, tagged as anoun, 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 43342, this pair ranks #1,421,108 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of bringe vs brink

Shared letters: binr. Private to "bringe": eg. Private to "brink": k.

"bringe" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV  ·  "brink" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bringebbringe · birnge · brigne · brineg · bringge · brinnge · brnige · brringe
  • brinkbbrink · birnk · brikn · brinkk · brinnk · brnik · brrink · rbink

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "bringe" for "brink" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bringe" is a verb and "brink" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "bringe" vs "brink" - which ranks higher?
"bringe" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,921 in our German list, against #37,421 for "brink". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "bringe" and "brink". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bringe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "brink" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,421,108 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bringe" and "brink" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "brink 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 #1,421,108 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