Breite
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,915
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Breite is aGermannoun. It means: horizontale Ausdehnung, Dimension, als Gegenstück zur Länge, Höhe oder Tiefe eine messbare Strecke an zweidimensionalen oder dreidimensionalen, rechtwinkligen Objekten, an Flächen und Körpern Pronounced [ˈbʁaɪ̯tə]. It ranks #1,915 in German word frequency. Often confused with Brett and Brite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Breite |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʁaɪ̯tə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Breite is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁaɪ̯tə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,915 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Breite, with forms such as "bbreite", "berite", and "breiet". 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, "Brett", "Brite", "Brote", 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 Breite, spelled B-R-E-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1horizontale Ausdehnung, Dimension, als Gegenstück zur Länge, Höhe oder Tiefe eine messbare Strecke an zweidimensionalen oder dreidimensionalen, rechtwinkligen Objekten, an Flächen und Körpern
- 2augenfällige, beträchtliche, erhebliche Ausdehnung, zum Beispiel nach rechts oder links oder auch in die Tiefe
- 3Weitschweifigkeit, Endlosigkeit, beträchtliche Ausdehnung
- 4im Winkelmaß angegebene nördliche oder südliche Entfernung eines Ortes auf der Erdoberfläche vom Äquator; Kurzform für Breitengrad
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbreite,berite,breiet,breitte,bretie,briete,brreite,rbeite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Breite
Misspelling Variants of "Breite"
Frequency rank: #1,915 in German
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