bäuerlich

[ˈbɔɪ̯ɐlɪç]

/[ˈbɔɪ̯ɐlɪç]/ adj

The verdict

“bäuerlich” is uncommon German (frequency #88,752 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,752
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich auf Bauern beziehend, zu Bauern gehörig, von Bauern stammend

Corpus desk

Index DE-bauerlich · bäuerlich · German

bäuerlich · rank #88,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,752
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH burrows

Nearest frequency peer: burrows (-3 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 „bäuerlich“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bäuerlich
PropertyValue
Headwordbäuerlich
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈbɔɪ̯ɐlɪç]
Letters9
Frequency rank#88,752
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „bäuerlich“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).bäuerlichfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „burrows“ (#88,749), „capote“ (#88,755), „burgenländische“ (#88,747). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „bäuerlich“ bei #88,752. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bäuerlich is uncommon German at frequency #88,752 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈbɔɪ̯ɐlɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich auf Bauern beziehend, zu Bauern gehörig, von Bauern stammend".

No generated misspelling entries exist for bäuerlich in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is bäuerlich, spelled B-Ä-U-E-R-L-I-C-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    sich auf Bauern beziehend, zu Bauern gehörig, von Bauern stammend

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sie trugen bäuerliche Trachten.
  2. Er ist fasziniert von der bäuerlichen Kunst.

This word in other languages

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 "bäuerlich"?
"bäuerlich" is spelled B-Ä-U-E-R-L-I-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbɔɪ̯ɐlɪç].
What does "bäuerlich" mean?
As an adjective, "bäuerlich" means: sich auf Bauern beziehend, zu Bauern gehörig, von Bauern stammend
How do you pronounce "bäuerlich"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bäuerlich" is [ˈbɔɪ̯ɐlɪç]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bäuerlich" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list