brieflich
[ˈbʁiːflɪç]
The verdict
“brieflich” is uncommon German (frequency #92,721 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,721
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - per Brief, in schriftlicher Form als Brief vorliegend
Corpus desk
Index DE-brieflich · brieflich · German
brieflich · rank #92,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,721
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Brieftaube
Nearest frequency peer: Brieftaube (+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 „brieflich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Brasilianern
Brasilianern
7,284 corpus weight
- brechende
brechende
7,283 corpus weight
- brennbar
brennbar
7,282 corpus weight
- brieflich
brieflich
7,280 corpus weight
- Brieftaube
Brieftaube
7,279 corpus weight
- Brotmesser
Brotmesser
7,277 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „brieflich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brieflich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈbʁiːflɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „brieflich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
brieflich is uncommon German at frequency #92,721 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈbʁiːflɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "per Brief, in schriftlicher Form als Brief vorliegend".
No misspelling variants are generated for brieflich in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 brieflich, spelled B-R-I-E-F-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1per Brief, in schriftlicher Form als Brief vorliegend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brieflich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Den Eltern teilte man brieflich mit, dass ihre Tochter an einer Lungenentzündung gestorben sei.“
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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