brüchig
[ˈbʁʏçɪç]
The verdict
“brüchig” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #42,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,387
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - leicht zu Brüchen führend; Brüche aufweisend
Corpus desk
Index DE-bruchig · brüchig · German
brüchig · rank #42,387 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,387
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH briefing
Nearest frequency peer: briefing (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „brüchig“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bitches
bitches
57,621 corpus weight
- blockt
blockt
57,620 corpus weight
- Brause
Brause
57,617 corpus weight
- briefing
briefing
57,615 corpus weight
- brüchig
brüchig
57,614 corpus weight
- Buschmann
Buschmann
57,610 corpus weight
What this shows „brüchig“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brüchig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈbʁʏçɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „brüchig“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around brüchig (IPA [ˈbʁʏçɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,387 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for brüchig, with forms such as "bbrüchig", "brcühig", and "brrüchig". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Bruch", "Brüche", "beruhig", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 brüchig, spelled B-R-Ü-C-H-I-G.
Definition
- 1leicht zu Brüchen führend; Brüche aufweisend
- 2spröde, rau
- 3wenig haltbar
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brüchig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es war nicht mehr als brüchiges Mauerwerk aus abgeschliffenen grauen Steinen vorhanden, das mit Moos bedeckt war.
Roheisen aus dem Hochofen ist ein brüchiger Werkstoff. Ursache ist der hohe Anteil an Kohlenstoff.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrüchig
- brcühig
- brrüchig
- brücchig
- brüchgi
- brüchhig
- brüchigg
- brücihg
- brühcig
- bürchig
- rbüchig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brüchig - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brüchig", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).