-brunn
[-bʁʊn]
The verdict
“-brunn” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Ortsnamengrundwort für Brunnen, Quelle
Corpus desk
Index DE-brunn · -brunn · German
-brunn · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" 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 | -brunn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [-bʁʊn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „-brunn“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
-brunn is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [-bʁʊn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Ortsnamengrundwort für Brunnen, Quelle".
-brunn doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 -brunn, spelled --B-R-U-N-N.
Definition
- 1ein Ortsnamengrundwort für Brunnen, Quelle
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.