Knäckebrot
[ˈknɛkəˌbʁoːt]
The verdict
“Knäckebrot” is uncommon German (frequency #80,570 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,570
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein kurz und heiß gebackenes Brot, das danach getrocknet wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-knackebrot · Knäckebrot · German
Knäckebrot · rank #80,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,570
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kochende
Nearest frequency peer: kochende (+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 „Knäckebrot“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Klingelschi…
Klingelschild
19,434 corpus weight
- klingender
klingender
19,433 corpus weight
- Knäckebrot
Knäckebrot
19,431 corpus weight
- kochende
kochende
19,430 corpus weight
- kompositori…
kompositorischen
19,429 corpus weight
- konischen
konischen
19,428 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Knäckebrot“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Knäckebrot |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈknɛkəˌbʁoːt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Knäckebrot“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Knäckebrot is uncommon German at frequency #80,570 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈknɛkəˌbʁoːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein kurz und heiß gebackenes Brot, das danach getrocknet wird".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Knäckebrot, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Knäckebrot, spelled K-N-Ä-C-K-E-B-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1ein kurz und heiß gebackenes Brot, das danach getrocknet wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Knäckebrot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Knäckebrot ist ein ziemlich geschmackloses Brot mit einer anscheinend fast unbegrenzten Lagerfähigkeit.
Die Bäckerei stellt hauptsächlich glutenfreie Knäckebrote in verschiedenen Varianten her.
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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