Bandwurm
[ˈbantˌvʊʁm]
The verdict
“Bandwurm” is uncommon German (frequency #89,997 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,997
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Parasit, der sich in den Darm von Lebewesen einnistet
Corpus desk
Index DE-bandwurm · Bandwurm · German
Bandwurm · rank #89,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,997
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Banausen
Nearest frequency peer: Banausen (-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 „Bandwurm“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Baikal
Baikal
10,009 corpus weight
- banaler
banaler
10,006 corpus weight
- Banausen
Banausen
10,005 corpus weight
- Bandwurm
Bandwurm
10,004 corpus weight
- Bausparvert…
Bausparverträge
10,003 corpus weight
- bedeutendere
bedeutendere
9,999 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bandwurm“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bandwurm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbantˌvʊʁm] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bandwurm“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bandwurm is uncommon German at frequency #89,997 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbantˌvʊʁm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Parasit, der sich in den Darm von Lebewesen einnistet".
Zero misspellings are on record for Bandwurm in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Bandwurm, spelled B-A-N-D-W-U-R-M.
Definition
- 1ein Parasit, der sich in den Darm von Lebewesen einnistet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bandwurm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Können Bandwürmer auch Bandwürmer bekommen?
Die plötzliche Gewichtsabnahme kann auch auf einen Bandwurm zurückgeführt werden.
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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