brennen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,920
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
brennen is aGermanverb. It means: in Flammen stehen, dem Feuer ausgesetzt sein Pronounced [ˈbʁɛnən]. It ranks #5,920 in German word frequency. Often confused with brennt and bringen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brennen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbʁɛnən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for brennen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁɛnən]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,920 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 brennen, with forms such as "bbrennen", "bernnen", and "brenen". 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, "brennt", "bringen", "Brunnen", 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 brennen, spelled B-R-E-N-N-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in Flammen stehen, dem Feuer ausgesetzt sein
- 2für jemanden/etwas eine Zuneigung empfinden
- 3brennbar sein
- 4in Betrieb sein
- 5Hitze ausstrahlen
- 6die Haut, Augen oder Schleimhäute reizen
- 7durch Hitze (meist in einem Ofen) die Eigenschaften verändern
- 8durch Destillation den Alkoholgehalt eines alkoholischen Getränkes erhöhen
- 9mit einem Brenner eine Zusammenstellung von Musik- oder anderen Daten auf CD oder DVD archivieren/kopieren
- 10(Locken) mit einer Brennschere formen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrennen,bernnen,brenen,brenenn,brennenn,brennne,brnenen,brrennen,rbennen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brennen
Misspelling Variants of "brennen"
Frequency rank: #5,920 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our German index: