babes
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The verdict
“babes” is uncommon German (frequency #53,503 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,503
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs babe
Corpus desk
Index DE-babes · babes · German
babes · rank #53,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,503
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH avanciert
Nearest frequency peer: avanciert (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „babes“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ausreichte
ausreichte
46,503 corpus weight
- avanciert
avanciert
46,499 corpus weight
- babes
babes
46,498 corpus weight
- Badewannen
Badewannen
46,497 corpus weight
- Bahre
Bahre
46,496 corpus weight
- banger
banger
46,495 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „babes“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „babes“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
babes is uncommon German at frequency #53,503 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs babe".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for babes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 German form is babes, spelled B-A-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs babe
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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