Borste
[ˈbɔʁstə]
The verdict
“Borste” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - steifes und dickes Tierhaar
Corpus desk
Index DE-borste · Borste · German
Borste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | Borste |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɔʁstə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Borste“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Borste is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɔʁstə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Borste in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Borste, spelled B-O-R-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1steifes und dickes Tierhaar
- 2aus Kunststoff oder Pflanzenfasern hergestelltes borstenartiges Material für Bürsten
Synonyms
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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.