Bruxelles
[bʁysɛl]
The verdict
“Bruxelles” is uncommon German (frequency #54,407 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,407
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brüssel
Corpus desk
Index DE-bruxelles · Bruxelles · German
Bruxelles · rank #54,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,407
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH brook
Nearest frequency peer: brook (-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 „Bruxelles“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Breyer
Breyer
45,597 corpus weight
- britischem
britischem
45,596 corpus weight
- brook
brook
45,595 corpus weight
- Bruxelles
Bruxelles
45,594 corpus weight
- Bundesnachr…
Bundesnachrichtendienst
45,593 corpus weight
- Bundesrecht
Bundesrecht
45,592 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bruxelles“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bruxelles |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʁysɛl] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bruxelles“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bruxelles is uncommon German at frequency #54,407 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bʁysɛl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Brüssel".
Bruxelles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists 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 Bruxelles, spelled B-R-U-X-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Brüssel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bruxelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bruxelles est la capitale de l'Union européenne et de la Belgique.
This word in other languages
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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