Bries
[bʁiːs]
The verdict
“Bries” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lymphatisches Organ, hinter dem oberen Brustbein gelegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bries · Bries · German
Bries · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bries |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʁiːs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bries“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bries is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [bʁiːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "lymphatisches Organ, hinter dem oberen Brustbein gelegen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bries, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Bries, spelled B-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1lymphatisches Organ, hinter dem oberen Brustbein gelegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Briese findet man nur noch selten auf den Speisekarten.
Als Bries, Kalbsbries oder Kalbsmilch wird die das Wachstum steuernde Thymusdrüse aus dem Brustkorb des Kalbs bezeichnet.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.