bre

[breː]

/[breː]/ verb

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The verdict

“bre” is uncommon German (frequency #94,065 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,065
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas auf einer Oberfläche verteilen

Corpus desk

Index DE-bre · bre · German

bre · rank #94,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,065
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH Brazilian

Nearest frequency peer: Brazilian (-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 „bre“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bre
PropertyValue
Headwordbre
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[breː]
Letters3
Frequency rank#94,065
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „bre“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).brefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Brazilian“ (#94,064), „Brasilianerin“ (#94,063), „Breuberg“ (#94,067). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „bre“ bei #94,065. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bre is uncommon German at frequency #94,065 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [breː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas auf einer Oberfläche verteilen".

No misspelling variants are generated for bre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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. The correct German form is bre, spelled B-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    etwas auf einer Oberfläche verteilen

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Christina brer på tjockt bröd med färskost.

This word in other languages

spread(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 "bre"?
"bre" is spelled B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [breː].
What does "bre" mean?
As a verb, "bre" means: etwas auf einer Oberfläche verteilen
How do you pronounce "bre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bre" is [breː]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bre" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

BMU#94,054deh#94,119Unb#93,742uit#93,732

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list