brechen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,876
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brechen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas zerkleinern, durch Kraft in mehrere Stücke zerlegen Pronounced [ˈbʁɛçn̩]. It ranks #3,876 in German word frequency. Often confused with Bremen and buchen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brechen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbʁɛçn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for brechen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁɛçn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,876 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for brechen, with forms such as "bbrechen", "berchen", and "brcehen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bremen", "buchen", "brecht", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is brechen, spelled B-R-E-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas zerkleinern, durch Kraft in mehrere Stücke zerlegen
- 2äußerer Belastung nicht mehr standhalten können
- 3(Strahlen) etwas Gerichtetes in einem Winkel ablenken
- 4ein (abstraktes) Hindernis zunichte machen
- 5die bestehende Verbindung zu etwas lösen
- 6die bestehende Beziehung zu jemandem abbrechen, nicht mehr mit ihm verkehren
- 7(Regeln, Gesetze, Üblichkeiten und Ähnliches) übertreten, nicht einhalten
- 8plötzlich hervorkommen
- 9sich übergeben; sich erbrechen
- 10den Boden aufwühlen
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrechen,berchen,brcehen,brecchen,brecehn,brechenn,brechhen,brechne,brehcen,brrechen,rbechen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brechen
Misspelling Variants of "brechen"
Frequency rank: #3,876 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our German index: