kratzbürstig
\ˈkʁat͡sˌbʏʁstɪç\
The verdict
“kratzbürstig” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revêche, d’un abord difficile, rude, peu traitable, rébarbatif, en parlant d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kratzburstig · kratzbürstig · French
kratzbürstig · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kratzbürstig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkʁat͡sˌbʏʁstɪç\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
kratzbürstig is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkʁat͡sˌbʏʁstɪç\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.