anbräunen
[ˈanˌbʁɔɪ̯nən]
The verdict
“anbräunen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Lebensmittel) kurz braten und dabei etwas Farbe nehmen lassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-anbraunen · anbräunen · German
anbräunen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anbräunen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌbʁɔɪ̯nən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „anbräunen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
anbräunen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈanˌbʁɔɪ̯nən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for anbräunen in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is anbräunen, spelled A-N-B-R-Ä-U-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1(Lebensmittel) kurz braten und dabei etwas Farbe nehmen lassen
- 2leicht braun werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anbräunen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Poulardenkeulen salzen und in der Butter leicht anbräunen.“
„Der Knecht schnallt eine Decke los und hüllt das verwirrte Kind nur mit Mühe in sie ein, weil es sich immer wieder […] an die Brust des Grafen schmiegt; und er bemerkt dabei, daß der Hemdsaum bereits von den Flammen angebräunt und brüchig geworden ist.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.