hergebracht
[ˈheːɐ̯ɡəˌbʁaxt]
The verdict
“hergebracht” is uncommon German (frequency #89,070 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,070
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs herbringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hergebracht · hergebracht · German
hergebracht · rank #89,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,070
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Herbstmesse
Nearest frequency peer: Herbstmesse (-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 „hergebracht“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Herabwürdig…
Herabwürdigung
10,934 corpus weight
- herabzusetz…
herabzusetzen
10,933 corpus weight
- Herbstmesse
Herbstmesse
10,932 corpus weight
- hergebracht
hergebracht
10,931 corpus weight
- herholen
herholen
10,930 corpus weight
- Herkunftsort
Herkunftsort
10,929 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hergebracht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hergebracht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈheːɐ̯ɡəˌbʁaxt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hergebracht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hergebracht is uncommon German at frequency #89,070 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈheːɐ̯ɡəˌbʁaxt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs herbringen".
No misspelling variants are generated for hergebracht 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. The correct German form is hergebracht, spelled H-E-R-G-E-B-R-A-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs herbringen
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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