Brüchen
[ˈbʁʏçn̩]
The verdict
“Brüchen” is uncommon German (frequency #53,561 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,561
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Bruch
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brüchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʁʏçn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Brüchen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Brüchen is uncommon German at frequency #53,561 among 72,680 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbʁʏçn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Bruch".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Brüchen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Brüchen, spelled B-R-Ü-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Bruch
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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Using “Brüchen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-R-Ü-C-H-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.