brevis
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The verdict
“brevis” is uncommon German (frequency #69,071 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,071
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kurz, klein, schmal (räumliche Ausdehnung in die Weite)
Corpus desk
Index DE-brevis · brevis · German
brevis · rank #69,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,071
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH breiteten
Nearest frequency peer: breiteten (-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 „brevis“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bottle
bottle
30,936 corpus weight
- Brandfall
Brandfall
30,933 corpus weight
- breiteten
breiteten
30,931 corpus weight
- brevis
brevis
30,930 corpus weight
- broadcasting
broadcasting
30,929 corpus weight
- Brunei
Brunei
30,927 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „brevis“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brevis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „brevis“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
brevis is uncommon German at frequency #69,071 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
brevis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is brevis, spelled B-R-E-V-I-S.
Definition
- 1kurz, klein, schmal (räumliche Ausdehnung in die Weite)
- 2kurz, klein, niedrig (räumliche Ausdehnung in die Höhe und Länge)
- 3niedrig, flach, seicht (räumliche Ausdehnung in die Tiefe)
- 4kurz (zeitlich)
- 5vorübergehend, vergänglich, flüchtig (Dinge von kurzer Dauer)
- 6kurz, geschärft (Metrik)
- 7sich kurz fassend (Rede)
- 8knapp, gering, dürftig (Essen, Last, Kosten)
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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