bagage

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The verdict

“bagage” is uncommon German (frequency #78,917 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,917
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bagage, Gepäck, Verpackung

Corpus desk

Index DE-bagage · bagage · German

bagage · rank #78,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,917
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH badischer

Nearest frequency peer: badischer (-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 „bagage“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bagage“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bagage
PropertyValue
Headwordbagage
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#78,917
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „bagage“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).bagagefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „badischer“ (#78,916), „Bahnübergänge“ (#78,918), „backbone“ (#78,915). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „bagage“ bei #78,917. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bagage is uncommon German at frequency #78,917 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bagage, Gepäck, Verpackung".

No generated misspelling entries exist for bagage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is bagage, spelled B-A-G-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bagage, Gepäck, Verpackung

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how bagage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans les bagages des deux « garçons de la ville » que Luo et moi représentions à leurs yeux, c'était le seul objet duquel semblait émaner une saveur étrangère, une odeur de civilisation, propre à éveiller les soupçons des villageois.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bagage"?
"bagage" is spelled B-A-G-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "bagage" mean?
As a noun, "bagage" means: Bagage, Gepäck, Verpackung
How do you pronounce "bagage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bagage" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bagage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Bangui#78,924Barium#78,927behagt#78,942Audits#78,886

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list