basket
[ˈbæskɪt]
The verdict
“basket” is uncommon German (frequency #62,216 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,216
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Behälter; Korb
Corpus desk
Index DE-basket · basket · German
basket · rank #62,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,216
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 72,680
- PHOTO-FINISH Baufirmen
Nearest frequency peer: Baufirmen (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “basket”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- axiome
axiome
37,789 corpus weight
- Balkontür
Balkontür
37,788 corpus weight
- basket
basket
37,785 corpus weight
- Baufirmen
Baufirmen
37,784 corpus weight
- Bausparkass…
Bausparkassen
37,782 corpus weight
- beachtenswe…
beachtenswert
37,781 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “basket” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basket |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbæskɪt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “basket” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
basket is uncommon German at frequency #62,216 among 72,680 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbæskɪt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Behälter; Korb".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for basket, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 basket, spelled B-A-S-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1Behälter; Korb
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.