Brückentag
[ˈbʁʏkn̩ˌtaːk]
The verdict
“Brückentag” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tag zwischen zwei arbeitsfreien Tagen, an dem bevorzugt Urlaub genommen wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-bruckentag · Brückentag · German
Brückentag · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brückentag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʁʏkn̩ˌtaːk] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Brückentag“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Brückentag is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbʁʏkn̩ˌtaːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tag zwischen zwei arbeitsfreien Tagen, an dem bevorzugt Urlaub genommen wird".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Brückentag, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Brückentag, spelled B-R-Ü-C-K-E-N-T-A-G.
Definition
- 1Tag zwischen zwei arbeitsfreien Tagen, an dem bevorzugt Urlaub genommen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Brückentag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wer sich vor den Kollegen Urlaub an den Brückentagen sichert, sollte allerdings auch bedenken, dass Reisen an diesen Tagen wegen des höheren Andrangs auch früher gebucht werden sollten.“
„Die Brückentage, die in manchen Regionen auch Fenster- oder Zwickeltage heißen, liegen im kommenden Jahr [2012] so günstig wie lange nicht mehr.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.