Bradford
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The verdict
“Bradford” is uncommon German (frequency #57,725 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,725
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stadt im Norden von England
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bradford |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bradford” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bradford is uncommon German at frequency #57,725 among 72,680 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt im Norden von England".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bradford, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Bradford, spelled B-R-A-D-F-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1Stadt im Norden von England
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Bradford”
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- The one correct German spelling is B-R-A-D-F-O-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.