brink vs by, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“brink” and “by” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#37,421
“brink” frequency rank: #1,627
“by” frequency rank: 39048
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	brink	by
Definition	Rand, Kante (besonders an einem steil abfallenden Platz, ein Kliff oder eine Schlucht)	Stadt

Letter map: brink vs by

Shared letters muted; letters that set brink and by apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

5 ch

brink

2 ch

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

brink and by are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39048, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

brink is recorded at frequency rank #37,421, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. by is at rank #1,627, 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 39048, this pair ranks #1,547,504 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of brink vs by

Shared letters: b. Private to "brink": iknr. Private to "by": y.

"brink" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "by" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

brink ← bbrink · birnk · brikn · brinkk · brinnk · brnik · brrink · rbink

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "brink" and "by" be used interchangeably?

No. They differ by 3 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Which is more common, "brink" or "by"?

"by" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,627 in our German list, against #37,421 for "brink". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "brink" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "by" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,547,504 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"brink" and "by" 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

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