brute
[bʁyt]
The verdict
“brute” is uncommon German (frequency #95,367 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,367
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grobian; Rohling; Tier
Corpus desk
Index DE-brute · brute · German
brute · rank #95,367 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,367
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH brutalsten
Nearest frequency peer: brutalsten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „brute“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Brezn
Brezn
4,639 corpus weight
- Brigittenau
Brigittenau
4,637 corpus weight
- Brindisi
Brindisi
4,636 corpus weight
- brutalsten
brutalsten
4,635 corpus weight
- brute
brute
4,634 corpus weight
- Buhrufe
Buhrufe
4,630 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „brute“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brute |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʁyt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „brute“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
brute is uncommon German at frequency #95,367 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bʁyt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grobian; Rohling; Tier".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brute, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 brute, spelled B-R-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Grobian; Rohling; Tier
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelle brute !
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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