Bremse
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,470
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
Bremse is aGermannoun. It means: Vorrichtung, die dazu dient, eine Bewegung zu verlangsamen oder anzuhalten Pronounced [ˈbʁɛmzə]. Often confused with brise and Brest.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bremse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʁɛmzə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Bremse is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁɛmzə]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,470 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bremse, with forms such as "bbremse", "bermse", and "bremes". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "brise", "Brest", "bremst", 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 Bremse, spelled B-R-E-M-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vorrichtung, die dazu dient, eine Bewegung zu verlangsamen oder anzuhalten
- 2Klemme; Knebel; Schraube
- 3an Nase, Lippen oder Ohren eines (störrischen) Pferdes angebrachte Klemme, die dazu dient, dieses, besonders beim Beschlagen, zu bändigen
- 4an der Harnröhre angebrachtes Kompressorium, das dazu dient, den Harn bei Inkontinenz zurückzuhalten
- 5starker Holzpfahl, der als Befestigungsanker für Sicherungsseile dient, mit denen schwere Baumaterialien in die Schächte abgelassen werden
- 6Vorrichtung, die dazu dient, das Hauptrad zu verlangsamen oder anzuhalten
- 7ein um die Lehre^([3]) gewickeltes Seil aus Haaren, das dazu dient, gefertigte Seile und Taue beim Seilen zu glätten
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbremse,bermse,bremes,bremmse,bremsse,bresme,brmese,brremse,rbemse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Bremse"
Frequency rank: #12,470 in German
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