Zugbrücke
[ˈt͡suːkˌbʁʏkə]
The verdict
“Zugbrücke” is an uncommon German word, ranked #77,587 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #77,587
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine an Ketten vom Endpunkt her hochziehbare Brücke über Burg- und Festungsgräben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zugbrücke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːkˌbʁʏkə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zugbrücke” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Zugbrücke is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡suːkˌbʁʏkə]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,587 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine an Ketten vom Endpunkt her hochziehbare Brücke über Burg- und Festungsgräben".
No misspelling variants are generated for Zugbrücke in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Zugbrücke, spelled Z-U-G-B-R-Ü-C-K-E.
Definition
- 1eine an Ketten vom Endpunkt her hochziehbare Brücke über Burg- und Festungsgräben
This word in other languages
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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Using “Zugbrücke”
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- The one correct German spelling is Z-U-G-B-R-Ü-C-K-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.