breathe
[briːð]
The verdict
“breathe” is uncommon German (frequency #76,606 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,606
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - atmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-breathe · breathe · German
breathe · rank #76,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,606
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Brandbomben
Nearest frequency peer: Brandbomben (-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 „breathe“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bostoner
Bostoner
23,398 corpus weight
- Brandbomben
Brandbomben
23,396 corpus weight
- breathe
breathe
23,395 corpus weight
- Brechungsin…
Brechungsindex
23,394 corpus weight
- Bregenzerwa…
Bregenzerwald
23,393 corpus weight
- Briketts
Briketts
23,392 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „breathe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breathe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [briːð] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „breathe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
breathe is uncommon German at frequency #76,606 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [briːð]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for breathe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is breathe, spelled B-R-E-A-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1atmen
- 2einatmen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breathe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Is he still breathing?
In contrast to a fish, Angela breathed air.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).