breastbone
[brest bəʊn]
The verdict
“breastbone” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brustbein
Corpus desk
Index DE-breastbone · breastbone · German
breastbone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breastbone |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [brest bəʊn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „breastbone“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
breastbone is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [brest bəʊn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Brustbein".
breastbone doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 breastbone, spelled B-R-E-A-S-T-B-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Brustbein
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how breastbone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My breastbone broke.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.