Baruch

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The verdict

“Baruch” is uncommon German (frequency #72,197 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,197
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname, biblischer Name

Corpus desk

Index DE-baruch · Baruch · German

Baruch · rank #72,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,197
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH basin

Nearest frequency peer: basin (+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 „Baruch“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Baruch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Baruch
PropertyValue
HeadwordBaruch
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#72,197
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Baruch“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Baruchfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „basin“ (#72,198), „barn“ (#72,195), „Bauantrag“ (#72,199). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „Baruch“ bei #72,197. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Baruch is uncommon German at frequency #72,197 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname, biblischer Name".

Baruch has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Baruch, spelled B-A-R-U-C-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    männlicher Vorname, biblischer Name

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Baruch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Baruch Mustermann
  2. „Für den jetzigen Schloßherrn, der von der zweiten Frau stammte, hatte sich daraus leider kein unmittelbarer Vorteil ergeben, und Dubslav von Stechlin wäre kleiner und großer Sorgen und Verlegenheiten nie los und ledig geworden, wenn er nicht in dem benachbarten Gransee seinen alten Freund Baruch Hirschfeld gehabt hätte.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Baruch"?
"Baruch" is spelled B-A-R-U-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Baruch" mean?
As a proper noun, "Baruch" means: männlicher Vorname, biblischer Name
How do you pronounce "Baruch"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Baruch" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Baruch", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list