offener Brief

/[ˌɔfənɐ ˈbʁiːf]/ phrase

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13 characters

Language

German

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offener Brief is aGermanphrase. It means: dem Empfänger (zumeist eine prominente Persönlichkeit oder Institution) zugestellter und gleichzeitig der Presse zur Veröffentlichung übersandter oder übergebener Brief, in dem, unter anderem, ein ... Pronounced [ˌɔfənɐ ˈbʁiːf].

Key facts for offener Brief
PropertyValue
Headwordoffener Brief
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌɔfənɐ ˈbʁiːf]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

offener Brief is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for offener Brief is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɔfənɐ 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: "dem Empfänger (zumeist eine prominente Persönlichkeit oder Institution) zugestellter und gleichzeitig der Presse zur Veröffentlichung übersandter oder übergebener Brief, in dem, unter anderem, ein ...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for offener Brief in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 offener Brief, spelled O-F-F-E-N-E-R- -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
    dem Empfänger (zumeist eine prominente Persönlichkeit oder Institution) zugestellter und gleichzeitig der Presse zur Veröffentlichung übersandter oder übergebener Brief, in dem, unter anderem, ein zumeist gegenwartsbezogenes gesellschaftspolitisches Thema behandelt, ein die Allgemeinheit angehendes Problem aufgeworfen, ein kritischer Meinungsbeitrag ausgesprochen oder dergleichen dargelegt wird

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How do you spell "offener Brief"?
"offener Brief" is spelled O-F-F-E-N-E-R- -B-R-I-E-F. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌɔfənɐ ˈbʁiːf].
What does "offener Brief" mean?
As a phrase, "offener Brief" means: dem Empfänger (zumeist eine prominente Persönlichkeit oder Institution) zugestellter und gleichzeitig der Presse zur Veröffentlichung übersandter oder übergebener Brief, in dem, unter anderem, ein ...
How do you pronounce "offener Brief"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "offener Brief" is [ˌɔfənɐ ˈbʁiːf]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "offener Brief" come from?
"offener Brief" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.