Engelbrecht

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The verdict

“Engelbrecht” is uncommon German (frequency #65,161 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,161
frequency rank, German
4,632
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - afrikaanser Nachname

Corpus desk

Index DE-engelbrecht · Engelbrecht · German

Engelbrecht · rank #65,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,161
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,632
  • PHOTO-FINISH engagiertes

Nearest frequency peer: engagiertes (-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 „Engelbrecht“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Engelbrecht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Engelbrecht
PropertyValue
HeadwordEngelbrecht
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters11
Frequency rank#65,161
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Engelbrecht“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Engelbrechtfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „engagiertes“ (#65,160), „enigma“ (#65,162), „Endzone“ (#65,159). Unter 4,632 „E“-Lemmata liegt „Engelbrecht“ bei #65,161. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Engelbrecht is uncommon German at frequency #65,161 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "afrikaanser Nachname".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Engelbrecht, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Engelbrecht, spelled E-N-G-E-L-B-R-E-C-H-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    afrikaanser Nachname

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Engelbrecht"?
"Engelbrecht" is spelled E-N-G-E-L-B-R-E-C-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Engelbrecht" mean?
As a proper noun, "Engelbrecht" means: afrikaanser Nachname
How do you pronounce "Engelbrecht"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Engelbrecht" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Engelbrecht" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Engelbrecht", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

engagiertes#65,160endgültiger#65,157Empowerment#65,156entwendeten#65,167

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list