kratzbürstig
\ˈkʁat͡sˌbʏʁstɪç\
The verdict
“kratzbürstig” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Revêche, d’un abord difficile, rude, peu traitable, rébarbatif, en parlant d’une personne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kratzbürstig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkʁat͡sˌbʏʁstɪç\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kratzbürstig” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for kratzbürstig is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkʁat͡sˌbʏʁstɪç\. 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: "Revêche, d’un abord difficile, rude, peu traitable, rébarbatif, en parlant d’une personne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kratzbürstig, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kratzbürstig, spelled K-R-A-T-Z-B-Ü-R-S-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1Revêche, d’un abord difficile, rude, peu traitable, rébarbatif, en parlant d’une personne.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “kratzbürstig”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is K-R-A-T-Z-B-Ü-R-S-T-I-G - 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.