brach

/[bʁaːx]/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,184

in German word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

brach is anGermanadj. It means: (in Bezug auf Bodenflächen) ungenutzt, leer Pronounced [bʁaːx]. It ranks #4,184 in German word frequency. Often confused with Buch and brav.

Key facts for brach
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Headwordbrach
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[bʁaːx]
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,184
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of brach in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for brach is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bʁaːx]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,184 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(in Bezug auf Bodenflächen) ungenutzt, leer".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for brach, with forms such as "barch", "bbrach", and "bracch". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Buch", "brav", "braun", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is brach, spelled B-R-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (in Bezug auf Bodenflächen) ungenutzt, leer

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: barch,bbrach,bracch,brachh,brahc,brcah,brrach,rbach

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brach

Misspelling Variants of "brach"

barch5bbrach6bracch6brachh6brahc5brcah5brrach6rbach5
Misspelling Variants of "brach"

Frequency rank: #4,184 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brach"?
"brach" is spelled B-R-A-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [bʁaːx].
What does "brach" mean?
As an adj, "brach" means: (in Bezug auf Bodenflächen) ungenutzt, leer
What words are commonly confused with "brach"?
"brach" is commonly confused with "Buch", "brav", "braun". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "brach"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brach" is [bʁaːx]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brach" come from?
"brach" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter B in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.