Bradford

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The verdict

“Bradford” is uncommon German (frequency #57,725 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,725
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt im Norden von England

Corpus desk

Index DE-bradford · Bradford · German

Bradford · rank #57,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,725
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH Blutproben

Nearest frequency peer: Blutproben (-1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Bradford“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bradford“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Bradford
PropertyValue
HeadwordBradford
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#57,725
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Bradford“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Bradfordfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Blutproben“ (#57,724), „Brandts“ (#57,726), „Blutgruppe“ (#57,723). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „Bradford“ bei #57,725. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Bradford is uncommon German at frequency #57,725 among 5,818 “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

  1. 1
    Stadt im Norden von England

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Bradford appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „In Bradford wurde eine Frau gefasst, die Briefe schrieb, in denen sie sich als Mörder ausgab.“

This word in other languages

Bradford(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Bradford"?
"Bradford" is spelled B-R-A-D-F-O-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Bradford" mean?
As a proper noun, "Bradford" means: Stadt im Norden von England
How do you pronounce "Bradford"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Bradford" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Bradford" come from?
"Bradford" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bradford", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

blutende#57,722bitteres#57,718biblisch#57,714brutales#57,736

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list