brewmaster
"brewmaster" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brewmaster” is uncommon English (frequency #97,885 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,885
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person in charge of beer production at a brewery
Corpus desk
Index EN-brewmaster · brewmaster · English
brewmaster · rank #97,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,885
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Brer
Nearest frequency peer: Brer (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “brewmaster”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bowstring
bowstring
2,122 corpus weight
- brede
brede
2,119 corpus weight
- breezing
breezing
2,118 corpus weight
- Brer
Brer
2,117 corpus weight
- brewmaster
brewmaster
2,116 corpus weight
- broths
broths
2,110 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brewmaster” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brewmaster |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brewmaster” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brewmaster is uncommon English at frequency #97,885 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person in charge of beer production at a brewery".
brewmaster has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From brew + master, a calque of German Braumeister. The correct English form is brewmaster, spelled B-R-E-W-M-A-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person in charge of beer production at a brewery
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brewmaster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster at the Brooklyn Brewery, cites the high cost of labor and storage for these beers, which are made by hand in small lots.
Etymology
From brew + master, a calque of German Braumeister.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).