Bankgeheimnis

/[ˈbankɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪs]/ noun

The verdict

“Bankgeheimnis” is an uncommon German word, ranked #77,717 in German word frequency and used as a noun.

#77,717
frequency rank, German
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Verschwiegenheitspflicht und Recht der Auskunftsverweigerung von Banken gegenüber Dritten (wie zum Beispiel staatlichen Institutionen) über die finanziellen Verhältnisse ihrer Kunden

Key facts for Bankgeheimnis
PropertyValue
HeadwordBankgeheimnis
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbankɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪs]
Letters13
Frequency rank#77,717
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Bankgeheimnis” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Bankgeheimnis lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Bankgeheimnis is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbankɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪs]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,717 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Verschwiegenheitspflicht und Recht der Auskunftsverweigerung von Banken gegenüber Dritten (wie zum Beispiel staatlichen Institutionen) über die finanziellen Verhältnisse ihrer Kunden".

No misspelling variants are generated for Bankgeheimnis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Bankgeheimnis, spelled B-A-N-K-G-E-H-E-I-M-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Verschwiegenheitspflicht und Recht der Auskunftsverweigerung von Banken gegenüber Dritten (wie zum Beispiel staatlichen Institutionen) über die finanziellen Verhältnisse ihrer Kunden

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #77,717 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Bankgeheimnis"?
"Bankgeheimnis" is spelled B-A-N-K-G-E-H-E-I-M-N-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbankɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪs].
What does "Bankgeheimnis" mean?
As a noun, "Bankgeheimnis" means: Verschwiegenheitspflicht und Recht der Auskunftsverweigerung von Banken gegenüber Dritten (wie zum Beispiel staatlichen Institutionen) über die finanziellen Verhältnisse ihrer Kunden
How do you pronounce "Bankgeheimnis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Bankgeheimnis" is [ˈbankɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Bankgeheimnis" come from?
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Using “Bankgeheimnis”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is B-A-N-K-G-E-H-E-I-M-N-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈbankɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby German words

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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.