beide
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#364
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
beide is aGermannum. It means: sowohl der/die/das eine als auch der/die/das andere; auch adverbial gebraucht Pronounced [ˈbaɪ̯də]. It ranks #364 in German word frequency. Often confused with beim and Bein.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beide |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Num |
| IPA | [ˈbaɪ̯də] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for beide is 5 letters long, classified as anum, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaɪ̯də]. Corpus data places it at rank #364 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for beide, with forms such as "bbeide", "bedie", and "beidde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "beim", "Bein", "bike", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is beide, spelled B-E-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sowohl der/die/das eine als auch der/die/das andere; auch adverbial gebraucht
- 2zwei
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbeide,bedie,beidde,beied,biede,ebide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for beide
Misspelling Variants of "beide"
Frequency rank: #364 in German
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Other entries that begin with the letter B in our German index: