bagatelle
[ba.ɡa.tɛl]
The verdict
“bagatelle” is uncommon German (frequency #68,034 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,034
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liebe, sexuelle Liebe
Corpus desk
Index DE-bagatelle · bagatelle · German
bagatelle · rank #68,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,034
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH axial
Nearest frequency peer: axial (-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 „bagatelle“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Auvergne
Auvergne
31,970 corpus weight
- AWG
AWG
31,969 corpus weight
- axial
axial
31,968 corpus weight
- bagatelle
bagatelle
31,967 corpus weight
- bake
bake
31,966 corpus weight
- Bane
Bane
31,965 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bagatelle“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagatelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ba.ɡa.tɛl] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bagatelle“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bagatelle is uncommon German at frequency #68,034 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ba.ɡa.tɛl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bagatelle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is bagatelle, spelled B-A-G-A-T-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Liebe, sexuelle Liebe
- 2Bagatelle, Kleinigkeit, Nichtigkeit, Lappalie
This word in other languages
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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