Brösel
German, noun
Brösel is spelled B-R-Ö-S-E-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 77,779th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brösel is a German masculine noun meaning “crumb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, brösel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “kleiner Teil eines festen Stoffes, meist eines Gebäcks; Krümel”.
What does Brösel mean in English?
noun
- 1
AustriaSwitzerlandmasculineneutercrumb
- 2
Austriainformalmasculineneutertrouble, conflict
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. kleiner Teil eines festen Stoffes, meist eines Gebäcks; Krümel 2. Semmelbrösel
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Brösel
- Brösels genitive
- Bröselchen diminutive neuter
- Brösmeli diminutive neuter
- Bröseln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Brösel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Brösel in German?
Brösel appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).