Bane
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The verdict
“Bane” is uncommon German (frequency #68,036 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,036
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-bane · Bane · German
Bane · rank #68,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,036
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bake
Nearest frequency peer: bake (-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 „Bane“
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 „Bane“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bane“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bane is uncommon German at frequency #68,036 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bane wohnt in Bredstedt.
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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