balm
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The verdict
“balm” is uncommon German (frequency #99,523 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,523
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aromatisches Harz, wohlriechende Salbe, Trost, Wohltat; Balsam
Corpus desk
Index DE-balm · balm · German
balm · rank #99,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,523
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bandname
Nearest frequency peer: Bandname (+2 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 „balm“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bahngleisen
Bahngleisen
483 corpus weight
- Bahnverbind…
Bahnverbindungen
482 corpus weight
- balm
balm
478 corpus weight
- Bandname
Bandname
476 corpus weight
- Bannkreis
Bannkreis
475 corpus weight
- Baran
Baran
474 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „balm“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #99,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „balm“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
balm is uncommon German at frequency #99,523 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for balm in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is balm, spelled B-A-L-M.
Definition
- 1aromatisches Harz, wohlriechende Salbe, Trost, Wohltat; Balsam
- 2balsamischer Duft
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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