Backe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,815
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Backe is aGermannoun. It means: einer der zwei Zwischenräume im Mund zwischen seitlichen Zähnen und der Schleimhaut außerhalb der Zähne (leer oder gefüllt) Pronounced [ˈbakə]. Often confused with BAK and Bank.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Backe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbakə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Backe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbakə]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,815 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Backe, with forms such as "abcke", "baccke", and "bacek". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BAK", "Bank", "Bock", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Backe, spelled B-A-C-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einer der zwei Zwischenräume im Mund zwischen seitlichen Zähnen und der Schleimhaut außerhalb der Zähne (leer oder gefüllt)
- 2eine Hälfte des Gesäßes
- 3am Werkstück (oder einer Bremse) angreifendes Teil eines Werkzeugs, zum Beispiel einer Zange
- 4die Fläche an einem Gewehrkolben, an dem die Wange anliegt
- 5Fleisch zwischen Zähnen und Außenluft, einschließlich der Schleimhaut innen und der Haut außen
- 6Haut-Oberfläche zwischen Nase und Mund einerseits und einem Ohr andererseits
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abcke,baccke,bacek,backke,bakce,bbacke,bcake
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Backe
Misspelling Variants of "Backe"
Frequency rank: #18,815 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our German index: