BR
German, noun
BR is spelled B-R (2 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,608th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). BR is a German masculine noun meaning “abbreviation of Betriebsrat (“works council”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Br. is a different word: “abbreviation of Bratsche (“viola”)”.
What does BR mean in English?
noun
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masculineabbreviation of Betriebsrat (“works council”)
noun
- 1
feminineabbreviation of Bundesrepublik (“federal republic”)
noun
- 1
abbreviation of Bratsche (“viola”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Bundesrat in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 2. Bundesrepublik 3. Betriebsrat 4. Bayerischer Rundfunk
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is BR in German?
BR appears 17 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).