Bane
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The verdict
“Bane” is an uncommon German word, ranked #68,036 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #68,036
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bane |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bane” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Bane is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #68,036 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "männlicher Vorname".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Bane in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Bane, spelled B-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname
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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Using “Bane”
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- The one correct German spelling is B-A-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.