Brummer

/[ˈbʁʊmɐ]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,840

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

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Brummer is aGermannoun. It means: großes und dickes, meist auch lästiges Insekt, insbesondere Vertreter der Schmeißfliegen Pronounced [ˈbʁʊmɐ].

Key facts for Brummer
PropertyValue
HeadwordBrummer
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbʁʊmɐ]
Letters7
Frequency rank#56,840
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Brummer in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Brummer is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁʊmɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,840 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Brummer in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Brummer, spelled B-R-U-M-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    großes und dickes, meist auch lästiges Insekt, insbesondere Vertreter der Schmeißfliegen
  2. 2
    schwerer Lastzug
  3. 3
    korpulente Person, die zudem einen schwerfälligen Eindruck macht
  4. 4
    etwas, das wegen seiner überdurchschnittlichen Größe, seiner besonderen Ausgefallenheit oder ähnlichen hervorstechenden Eigenschaften zu Erstaunen führt und Aufmerksamkeit erregt
  5. 5
    Sänger (etwa in einem Chor), der eine brummende Stimme hat
  6. 6
    ein brummender Laut
  7. 7
    ein leichter Schlag auf die Lippen, so dass sie ein Geräusch von sich geben
  8. 8
    Ochse, der zur Zucht gehalten wird
  9. 9
    grobe, dicke Saite an Geige, Violone und Bassgeige
  10. 10
    eine der größten Pfeifen der Orgel
  11. 11
    schwere, 12-pfündige Kanone bei der preußischen Artillerie
  12. 12
    Froschfisch, Batrachus
  13. 13
    geringwertige Kupfermünze
  14. 14
    in Bromberg geschlagene polnische Silbermünze im Wert eines halben preußischen Silbergroschens
  15. 15
    im Großherzogtum Posen und in Polen geprägte kupferne Scheidemünze, die drei polnischen Groschen entsprach
  16. 16
    aufkommender Rausch
  17. 17
    heulender Sturmwind

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Frequency rank: #56,840 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Brummer"?
"Brummer" is spelled B-R-U-M-M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbʁʊmɐ].
What does "Brummer" mean?
As a noun, "Brummer" means: großes und dickes, meist auch lästiges Insekt, insbesondere Vertreter der Schmeißfliegen
How do you pronounce "Brummer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Brummer" is [ˈbʁʊmɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Brummer" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.