Brie
[bʁiː]
The verdict
“Brie” is uncommon German (frequency #52,714 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,714
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - französischer Weichkäse mit Weißschimmel
Corpus desk
Index DE-brie · Brie · German
Brie · rank #52,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,714
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH breiteres
Nearest frequency peer: breiteres (-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 „Brie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Brandgefahr
Brandgefahr
47,292 corpus weight
- Bregenzer
Bregenzer
47,290 corpus weight
- breiteres
breiteres
47,288 corpus weight
- Brie
Brie
47,287 corpus weight
- bronzene
bronzene
47,285 corpus weight
- Bukowina
Bukowina
47,283 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Brie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʁiː] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Brie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Brie is uncommon German at frequency #52,714 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bʁiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "französischer Weichkäse mit Weißschimmel".
Brie has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Brie, spelled B-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1französischer Weichkäse mit Weißschimmel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Brie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf der Käseplatte war ein hervorragender französischer Brie.
Synonyms
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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