bébé
[be.be]
The verdict
“bébé” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entwicklungsstadium des Menschen: Baby, Säugling
Corpus desk
Index DE-bebe · bébé · German
bébé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bébé |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [be.be] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bébé“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bébé is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [be.be]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Entwicklungsstadium des Menschen: Baby, Säugling".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bébé in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bébé, spelled B-É-B-É.
Definition
- 1Entwicklungsstadium des Menschen: Baby, Säugling
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bébé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bébé est mignon et est très joli.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.