babbel
[ˈbabl̩]
The verdict
“babbel” is uncommon German (frequency #75,415 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,415
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs babbeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-babbel · babbel · German
babbel · rank #75,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,415
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH autorisierten
Nearest frequency peer: autorisierten (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “babbel”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- autobus
autobus
24,589 corpus weight
- Autokraten
Autokraten
24,588 corpus weight
- autorisiert…
autorisierten
24,587 corpus weight
- babbel
babbel
24,586 corpus weight
- Bachbett
Bachbett
24,585 corpus weight
- Backdoor
Backdoor
24,584 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “babbel” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babbel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbabl̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “babbel” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
babbel is uncommon German at frequency #75,415 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈbabl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
babbel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 babbel, spelled B-A-B-B-E-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs babbeln
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs babbeln
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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