brauchen
[ˈbʁaʊ̯xn̩]
The verdict
“brauchen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #597
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas brauchen:
Corpus desk
Index DE-brauchen · brauchen · German
brauchen · rank #597 · 12 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #597
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH aufgrund
Nearest frequency peer: aufgrund (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „brauchen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- AfD
AfD
99,407 corpus weight
- alt
alt
99,406 corpus weight
- aufgrund
aufgrund
99,405 corpus weight
- brauchen
brauchen
99,404 corpus weight
- innerhalb
innerhalb
99,403 corpus weight
- insgesamt
insgesamt
99,402 corpus weight
What this shows „brauchen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brauchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbʁaʊ̯xn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „brauchen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around brauchen (IPA [ˈbʁaʊ̯xn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #597 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brauchen, with forms such as "baruchen", "bbrauchen", and "bracuhen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "buchen", "Brüche", "brauen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 brauchen, spelled B-R-A-U-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas brauchen:
- 2etwas benötigen, nötig haben
- 3etwas verwenden, benutzen
- 4mit erweitertem Infinitiv und begrenzt oder verneint:
- 5müssen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brauchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich gehe einkaufen. Brauchen wir noch Milch?
„Es braucht vor allem großflächige und länger anhaltende Niederschläge, die die Böden nachhaltig durchfeuchten.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baruchen
- bbrauchen
- bracuhen
- braucchen
- braucehn
- brauchenn
- brauchhen
- brauchne
- brauhcen
- brrauchen
- bruachen
- rbauchen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brauchen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brauchen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).