bake
[beɪk]
The verdict
“bake” is uncommon German (frequency #68,035 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,035
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - backen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bake · bake · German
bake · rank #68,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,035
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bagatelle
Nearest frequency peer: bagatelle (-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 „bake“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- 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
- Barrikade
Barrikade
31,963 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bake“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bake |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [beɪk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bake“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bake is uncommon German at frequency #68,035 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [beɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "backen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bake in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is bake, spelled B-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1backen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The kids baked a cake yesterday.
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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