der große Bruder
[deːɐ̯ ˌɡʁoːsə ˈbʁuːdɐ]
The verdict
“der große Bruder” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — der größere, mächtigere Partner, Verbündete
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | der große Bruder |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deːɐ̯ ˌɡʁoːsə ˈbʁuːdɐ] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “der große Bruder” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for der große Bruder is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːɐ̯ ˌɡʁoːsə ˈbʁuːdɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for der große Bruder in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 der große Bruder, spelled D-E-R- -G-R-O-S-S-E- -B-R-U-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der größere, mächtigere Partner, Verbündete
- 2die allmächtige Staatsgewalt, die alle und alles überwacht
This word in other languages
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Using “der große Bruder”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-E-R- -G-R-O-S-S-E- -B-R-U-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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