breve
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The verdict
“breve” is uncommon German (frequency #74,412 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,412
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kurz
Corpus desk
Index DE-breve · breve · German
breve · rank #74,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,412
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH brennendem
Nearest frequency peer: brennendem (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „breve“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Brandursache
Brandursache
25,593 corpus weight
- Braumeister
Braumeister
25,591 corpus weight
- brennendem
brennendem
25,590 corpus weight
- breve
breve
25,589 corpus weight
- Briefkopf
Briefkopf
25,588 corpus weight
- brita
brita
25,587 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „breve“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breve |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „breve“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
breve is uncommon German at frequency #74,412 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kurz".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for breve, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is breve, spelled B-R-E-V-E.
Definition
- 1kurz
This word in other languages
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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