Briefwähler
[ˈbʁiːfˌvɛːlɐ]
The verdict
“Briefwähler” is uncommon German (frequency #66,071 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,071
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wähler, der seine Stimme per Brief abgibt und nicht im Wahllokal
Corpus desk
Index DE-briefwahler · Briefwähler · German
Briefwähler · rank #66,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,071
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bringer
Nearest frequency peer: Bringer (+2 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 „Briefwähler“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Braunschwei…
Braunschweigs
33,935 corpus weight
- braus
braus
33,934 corpus weight
- brechend
brechend
33,933 corpus weight
- Briefwähler
Briefwähler
33,930 corpus weight
- Bringer
Bringer
33,928 corpus weight
- Bronchien
Bronchien
33,927 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Briefwähler“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Briefwähler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʁiːfˌvɛːlɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Briefwähler“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Briefwähler is uncommon German at frequency #66,071 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbʁiːfˌvɛːlɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wähler, der seine Stimme per Brief abgibt und nicht im Wahllokal".
Briefwähler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Briefwähler, spelled B-R-I-E-F-W-Ä-H-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Wähler, der seine Stimme per Brief abgibt und nicht im Wahllokal
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Briefwähler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sein Leben lang aus Noblesse Briefwähler gewesen, stürmte er nun das Wahllokal und fragte lauthals, wo man denn für die Zentrumspartei stimmen könne.
„Die Briefwähler stimmten in teils weit größerem Ausmaß als im Mai für Van der Bellen.“
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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