BCE

abbrev

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The verdict

“BCE” is uncommon German (frequency #84,992 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,992
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Before the Common Era

Corpus desk

Index DE-bce · BCE · German

BCE · rank #84,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,992
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bauwerkes

Nearest frequency peer: Bauwerkes (-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 „BCE“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for BCE
PropertyValue
HeadwordBCE
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbreviation
Letters3
Frequency rank#84,992
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „BCE“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.BCEfällt 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: „Bauwerkes“ (#84,991), „beaucoup“ (#84,993), „bedarfsgerechte“ (#84,995). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „BCE“ bei #84,992. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

BCE is uncommon German at frequency #84,992 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for BCE, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is BCE, spelled B-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Before the Common Era
  2. 2
    Before the Christian Era
  3. 3
    Before the Current Era
  4. 4
    deutsch wörtlich vor der Gewöhnlichen/Christlichen/Gegenwärtigen Ära, sinngemäß v. Chr., v. d. Z.

Synonyms

BC

Antonyms

CEAD

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 "BCE"?
"BCE" is spelled B-C-E.
What does "BCE" mean?
As an abbreviation, "BCE" means: Before the Common Era
What language does "BCE" come from?
"BCE" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

afk#84,890Adm#84,889DGS#85,115dla#85,128

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list