Bächlein
[ˈbɛçlaɪ̯n]
The verdict
“Bächlein” is uncommon German (frequency #83,788 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,788
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleiner Bach
Corpus desk
Index DE-bachlein · Bächlein · German
Bächlein · rank #83,788 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,788
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bäckern
Nearest frequency peer: Bäckern (+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 „Bächlein“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bundestagsm…
Bundestagsmandat
16,219 corpus weight
- Bundestrain…
Bundestrainerin
16,218 corpus weight
- Busreisen
Busreisen
16,215 corpus weight
- Bächlein
Bächlein
16,213 corpus weight
- Bäckern
Bäckern
16,212 corpus weight
- Bärin
Bärin
16,211 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bächlein“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bächlein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɛçlaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bächlein“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bächlein is uncommon German at frequency #83,788 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɛçlaɪ̯n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kleiner Bach".
Zero misspellings are on record for Bächlein in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Bächlein, spelled B-Ä-C-H-L-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1kleiner Bach
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bächlein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Wasser des Bächleins ist kristallklar und man kann kleine Fischchen im Wasser erkennen.
„Jetzt kam sie an ein kleines Bächlein und setzte sich am Ufer auf einen Stein.“
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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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