Zugbrücke
[ˈt͡suːkˌbʁʏkə]
The verdict
“Zugbrücke” is uncommon German (frequency #77,587 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,587
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine an Ketten vom Endpunkt her hochziehbare Brücke über Burg- und Festungsgräben
Corpus desk
Index DE-zugbrucke · Zugbrücke · German
Zugbrücke · rank #77,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,587
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zimmerleute
Nearest frequency peer: Zimmerleute (-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 „Zugbrücke“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zerlegte
zerlegte
22,417 corpus weight
- Zimmerleute
Zimmerleute
22,415 corpus weight
- Zugbrücke
Zugbrücke
22,414 corpus weight
- zugeschrieb…
zugeschriebene
22,413 corpus weight
- Zuhörerscha…
Zuhörerschaft
22,412 corpus weight
- zurückkehre
zurückkehre
22,411 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Zugbrücke“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zugbrücke“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zugbrücke is uncommon German at frequency #77,587 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡suːkˌbʁʏkə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zugbrücke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese Zugbrücke ist viele Jahre nicht hochgezogen worden.
„Wir traten ein, und die Zugbrücke wurde sogleich hinter uns hochgezogen.“
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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