Bärendienst
[ˈbɛːʁənˌdiːnst]
The verdict
“Bärendienst” is uncommon German (frequency #73,345 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,345
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gut gemeinte Unterstützung für jemanden, die für den Betroffenen aber ungewollt negative Folgen hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-barendienst · Bärendienst · German
Bärendienst · rank #73,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,345
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bust
Nearest frequency peer: bust (-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 „Bärendienst“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Burgos
Burgos
26,660 corpus weight
- Burrito
Burrito
26,659 corpus weight
- bust
bust
26,657 corpus weight
- Bärendienst
Bärendienst
26,656 corpus weight
- Bücherschra…
Bücherschrank
26,654 corpus weight
- Büchsen
Büchsen
26,653 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bärendienst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bärendienst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɛːʁənˌdiːnst] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #73,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bärendienst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bärendienst is uncommon German at frequency #73,345 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɛːʁənˌdiːnst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gut gemeinte Unterstützung für jemanden, die für den Betroffenen aber ungewollt negative Folgen hat".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Bärendienst, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Bärendienst, spelled B-Ä-R-E-N-D-I-E-N-S-T.
Definition
- 1gut gemeinte Unterstützung für jemanden, die für den Betroffenen aber ungewollt negative Folgen hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bärendienst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn man jemandem alle Mühen abnimmt, statt ihn selbst aktiv werden zu lassen, erweist man ihm einen Bärendienst.
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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