Breitengrad
[ˈbʁaɪ̯tn̩ˌɡʁaːt]
The verdict
“Breitengrad” is an uncommon German word, ranked #54,402 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #54,402
- frequency rank, German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lage eines Punktes auf der Erdoberfläche zwischen dem Äquator und einem der Pole
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Breitengrad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʁaɪ̯tn̩ˌɡʁaːt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Breitengrad” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Breitengrad is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁaɪ̯tn̩ˌɡʁaːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,402 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lage eines Punktes auf der Erdoberfläche zwischen dem Äquator und einem der Pole".
Breitengrad has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Breitengrad, spelled B-R-E-I-T-E-N-G-R-A-D.
Definition
- 1Lage eines Punktes auf der Erdoberfläche zwischen dem Äquator und einem der Pole
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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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Using “Breitengrad”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-R-E-I-T-E-N-G-R-A-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbʁaɪ̯tn̩ˌɡʁaːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.