bremsen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,520
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
bremsen is aGermanverb. It means: die Geschwindigkeit, das Tempo verringern, vermindern, verlangsamen Pronounced [ˈbʁɛmzn̩]. It ranks #6,520 in German word frequency. Often confused with bumsen and bremst.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bremsen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbʁɛmzn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bremsen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁɛmzn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,520 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 bremsen, with forms such as "bbremsen", "bermsen", and "bremesn". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "bumsen", "bremst", "brennen", 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 bremsen, spelled B-R-E-M-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Geschwindigkeit, das Tempo verringern, vermindern, verlangsamen
- 2etwas oder jemanden zur Verringerung der Geschwindigkeit von Bewegungen, Prozessen, Handlungen, Entwicklungen veranlassen, bringen
- 3geräuschvoll während des Schlafs atmen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbremsen,bermsen,bremesn,bremmsen,bremsenn,bremsne,bremssen,bresmen,brmesen,brremsen,rbemsen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bremsen
Misspelling Variants of "bremsen"
Frequency rank: #6,520 in German
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