Baugrube
[ˈbaʊ̯ˌɡʁuːbə]
The verdict
“Baugrube” is uncommon German (frequency #57,694 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,694
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Raum unterhalb der Geländeoberfläche, dem im Untergrund gelegenen Teil einer zu errichtenden baulichen Anlage sowie den seitlichen Arbeitsräume und der Baugrubensicherung Platz bietet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baugrube |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaʊ̯ˌɡʁuːbə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Baugrube” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Baugrube is uncommon German at frequency #57,694 among 72,680 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbaʊ̯ˌɡʁuːbə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Raum unterhalb der Geländeoberfläche, dem im Untergrund gelegenen Teil einer zu errichtenden baulichen Anlage sowie den seitlichen Arbeitsräume und der Baugrubensicherung Platz bietet".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Baugrube, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Baugrube, spelled B-A-U-G-R-U-B-E.
Definition
- 1Raum unterhalb der Geländeoberfläche, dem im Untergrund gelegenen Teil einer zu errichtenden baulichen Anlage sowie den seitlichen Arbeitsräume und der Baugrubensicherung Platz bietet
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.
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Using “Baugrube”
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- The one correct German spelling is B-A-U-G-R-U-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.