Balg
[balk]
The verdict
“Balg” is uncommon German (frequency #52,673 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,673
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verzogenes, freches Kind
Corpus desk
Index DE-balg · Balg · German
Balg · rank #52,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,673
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Babette
Nearest frequency peer: Babette (-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 „Balg“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Autobahnbrü…
Autobahnbrücke
47,332 corpus weight
- Autobahnpol…
Autobahnpolizei
47,331 corpus weight
- Babette
Babette
47,329 corpus weight
- Balg
Balg
47,328 corpus weight
- Barone
Barone
47,326 corpus weight
- Bassisten
Bassisten
47,325 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Balg“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Balg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [balk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Balg“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Balg is uncommon German at frequency #52,673 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [balk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Balg in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Balg, spelled B-A-L-G.
Definition
- 1verzogenes, freches Kind
- 2(meist ungewolltes, nicht erwünschtes) Kind
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Balg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ihre Bälger sind richtige Quälgeister.
„Mevrouw begriff auch - nicht durch logische Folgerung, sondern intuitiv -, daß dieser Balg aus den Sümpfen seine Pfoten auf den Begriff der mathematischen Variablen gelegt und seine Krallen in den spannungsreichen Raum geschlagen hatte, der sich zwischen mathematischer Definition und mathematischer Existenz befindet.“
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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