Brie
[bʁiː]
The verdict
“Brie” is an uncommon German word, ranked #52,714 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #52,714
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - französischer Weichkäse mit Weißschimmel
| 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) |
Where “Brie” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Brie is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bʁiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,714 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
Synonyms
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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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Using “Brie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bʁiː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.