breakdance
[bʁɛkdɛns]
The verdict
“breakdance” is uncommon German (frequency #57,730 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,730
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Breakdance
Corpus desk
Index DE-breakdance · breakdance · German
breakdance · rank #57,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,730
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Breitseite
Nearest frequency peer: Breitseite (+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 „breakdance“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Brandts
Brandts
42,275 corpus weight
- Brausen
Brausen
42,273 corpus weight
- breakdance
breakdance
42,271 corpus weight
- Breitseite
Breitseite
42,270 corpus weight
- bremischen
bremischen
42,269 corpus weight
- bride
bride
42,268 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „breakdance“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breakdance |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʁɛkdɛns] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „breakdance“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
breakdance is uncommon German at frequency #57,730 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bʁɛkdɛns]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Breakdance".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for breakdance, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is breakdance, spelled B-R-E-A-K-D-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Breakdance
Synonyms
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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