bratwurst
noun
bratwurst is spelled B-R-A-T-W-U-R-S-T: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bratwurst means “A small (typically pork) sausage, usually served fried” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bratwurst is bratwursts.
How many letters and syllables are in bratwurst?
| Letters | 9: B-R-A-T-W-U-R-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is bratwurst?
Bratwurst appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce bratwurst?
- US
Bratwurst has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-bratwurst.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bratwurst
- bratwursts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bratwurst mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small (typically pork) sausage, usually served fried.
Yesterday we had bratwurst for dinner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bratwurst in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small pork sausage:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | crépinette |
| German | Bratwurst |
| Portuguese | bratwurst |
| Spanish | bratwurst |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bratwurst come from?
Borrowed from German Bratwurst. The word is partly from braten (“to fry”) + Wurst (“sausage”), and partly from an older Middle High German brātwurst, in which brāt is an unrelated word meaning “ground meat” (compare German Brät). In modern German, the term Bratwurst is used almost exclusively for sausages fried or to be fried.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).