brenn
[bʁɛn]
The verdict
“brenn” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,778) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,778
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs brennen
Corpus desk
Index DE-brenn · brenn · German
brenn · rank #43,778 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,778
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH brandneu
Nearest frequency peer: brandneu (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „brenn“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Blutbild
Blutbild
56,227 corpus weight
- Bodentruppen
Bodentruppen
56,226 corpus weight
- brandneu
brandneu
56,224 corpus weight
- brenn
brenn
56,223 corpus weight
- Bresche
Bresche
56,222 corpus weight
- Brilon
Brilon
56,220 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „brenn“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brenn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bʁɛn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „brenn“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for brenn is neighbouring look-alikes ("brun", "Bruno", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [bʁɛn]. Frequency #43,778 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs brennen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for brenn, with forms such as "bbrenn", "brnen", and "brrenn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brun", "Bruno", "bring", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is brenn, spelled B-R-E-N-N.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs brennen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrenn
- brnen
- brrenn
- rbenn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brenn - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).