Bastards
[ˈbastaʁt͡s]
The verdict
“Bastards” is uncommon German (frequency #73,283 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,283
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Bastard
Corpus desk
Index DE-bastards · Bastards · German
Bastards · rank #73,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,283
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bankverbindung
Nearest frequency peer: Bankverbindung (-2 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 „Bastards“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Balkanstaat…
Balkanstaaten
26,723 corpus weight
- bambini
bambini
26,722 corpus weight
- Bankverbind…
Bankverbindung
26,720 corpus weight
- Bastards
Bastards
26,718 corpus weight
- Baurat
Baurat
26,714 corpus weight
- beanstandete
beanstandete
26,712 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bastards“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bastards |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbastaʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bastards“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bastards is uncommon German at frequency #73,283 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbastaʁt͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Bastard".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bastards in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Bastards, spelled B-A-S-T-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Bastard
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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