offene Brief

/[ˌɔfənə ˈbʁiːf]/ noun

The verdict

“offene Brief” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
12
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nominativ Singular der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs offener Brief

Key facts for offene Brief
PropertyValue
Headwordoffene Brief
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˌɔfənə ˈbʁiːf]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “offene Brief” sits in German frequency

offene Brief falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for offene Brief is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɔfənə ˈbʁiːf]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nominativ Singular der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs offener Brief".

No misspelling variants are generated for offene Brief 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 offene Brief, spelled O-F-F-E-N-E- -B-R-I-E-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs offener Brief

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "offene Brief"?
"offene Brief" is spelled O-F-F-E-N-E- -B-R-I-E-F. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌɔfənə ˈbʁiːf].
What does "offene Brief" mean?
As a noun, "offene Brief" means: Nominativ Singular der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs offener Brief
How do you pronounce "offene Brief"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "offene Brief" is [ˌɔfənə ˈbʁiːf]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "offene Brief" come from?
"offene Brief" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “offene Brief”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is O-F-F-E-N-E- -B-R-I-E-F — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˌɔfənə ˈbʁiːf] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.