brig
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The verdict
“brig” is uncommon German (frequency #55,205 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,205
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Militärgefängnis in englischsprachigen Staaten an Bord eines Schiffes der Navy, der Küstenwache oder auf einem Stützpunkt der Marine oder des Marine Corps
Corpus desk
Index DE-brig · brig · German
brig · rank #55,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,205
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bootsfahrt
Nearest frequency peer: Bootsfahrt (-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 „brig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- boarding
boarding
44,800 corpus weight
- Bogotá
Bogotá
44,799 corpus weight
- Bootsfahrt
Bootsfahrt
44,798 corpus weight
- brig
brig
44,796 corpus weight
- buchstabier…
buchstabieren
44,794 corpus weight
- buk
buk
44,793 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „brig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „brig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
brig is uncommon German at frequency #55,205 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Militärgefängnis in englischsprachigen Staaten an Bord eines Schiffes der Navy, der Küstenwache oder auf einem Stützpunkt der Marine oder des Marine Corps".
No generated misspelling entries exist for brig in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is brig, spelled B-R-I-G.
Definition
- 1Militärgefängnis in englischsprachigen Staaten an Bord eines Schiffes der Navy, der Küstenwache oder auf einem Stützpunkt der Marine oder des Marine Corps
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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