BRT
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The verdict
“BRT” is uncommon German (frequency #83,778 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,778
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maßeinheit (Raummaß) für die Größe eines Handelsschiffes (1 BRT = 2.83 Kubikmeter)
Corpus desk
Index DE-brt · BRT · German
BRT · rank #83,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,778
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bruchstück
Nearest frequency peer: Bruchstück (+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 „BRT“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Braunbären
Braunbären
16,227 corpus weight
- Brennnesseln
Brennnesseln
16,225 corpus weight
- BRT
BRT
16,223 corpus weight
- Bruchstück
Bruchstück
16,222 corpus weight
- Brückenpfei…
Brückenpfeiler
16,221 corpus weight
- Bundesgeset…
Bundesgesetze
16,220 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „BRT“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BRT |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „BRT“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
BRT is uncommon German at frequency #83,778 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maßeinheit (Raummaß) für die Größe eines Handelsschiffes (1 BRT = 2.83 Kubikmeter)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for BRT in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 BRT, spelled B-R-T.
Definition
- 1Maßeinheit (Raummaß) für die Größe eines Handelsschiffes (1 BRT = 2.83 Kubikmeter)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BRT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"02.06.1977 "Rasa Sayang" - Straße von Malakka - 2 Tote Singapurisches Schiff (Ex-Bergensfjord, Ex-De Grasse), 18.739 BRT; 653 Passagiere; Brand auf Kreuzfahrt zwischen Singapur und Indonesien in der Straße von Malakka (östlich von Malaysia); 2 tote Seeleute; Schiff stark beschädigt, aber repariert; nach weiterem Brand im August 1980 verschrottet."
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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