brat

/[bʁaːt]/ verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#58,646

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

brat is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs braten Pronounced [bʁaːt].

Key facts for brat
PropertyValue
Headwordbrat
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bʁaːt]
Letters4
Frequency rank#58,646
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for brat is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bʁaːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,646 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs braten".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for brat in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 brat, spelled B-R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs braten

Frequency rank: #58,646 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brat"?
"brat" is spelled B-R-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is [bʁaːt].
What does "brat" mean?
As a verb, "brat" means: 2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs braten
How do you pronounce "brat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brat" is [bʁaːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brat" come from?
"brat" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.