Brandbrief
German, noun[ˈbʁantˌbʁiːf]
Brandbrief is spelled B-R-A-N-D-B-R-I-E-F (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 92,701st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brandbrief is a German masculine noun meaning “urgent letter to an organisation or (figure of) authority asserting an emergency situation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “meist in großer Not und hoher Dringlichkeit geschriebener Bittbrief, der meist Missstände anprangert, an…”.
What does Brandbrief mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineurgent letter to an organisation or (figure of) authority asserting an emergency situation
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. meist in großer Not und hoher Dringlichkeit geschriebener Bittbrief, der meist Missstände anprangert, an jemanden appelliert und/oder Abhilfe einfordert 2. Brief, in welchem eine Brandstiftung angedroht oder angekündigt wird; schriftliche Branddrohung 3. obrigkeitlicher Brief beziehungsweise schriftliches Dokument, welches einen erlittenen Brandschaden bescheinigte (daher dann die Bedeutung: wie jemand, der einen Brandschaden erlitten hat, ungestüm um Hilfe betteln)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Brandbrief
- Brandbriefes genitive
- Brandbriefs genitive
- Brandbriefe plural
- Brandbriefen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Brandbrief?
- [ˈbʁantˌbʁiːf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Brandbrief in German?
Brandbrief appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).