Beigabe
[ˈbaɪ̯ˌɡaːbə]
The verdict
“Beigabe” is uncommon German (frequency #71,139 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,139
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handlung, etwas dazuzutun
Corpus desk
Index DE-beigabe · Beigabe · German
Beigabe · rank #71,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,139
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beidseitige
Nearest frequency peer: beidseitige (-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 „Beigabe“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- behelfen
behelfen
28,865 corpus weight
- behüte
behüte
28,864 corpus weight
- beidseitige
beidseitige
28,863 corpus weight
- Beigabe
Beigabe
28,862 corpus weight
- beigefügte
beigefügte
28,861 corpus weight
- beliebtester
beliebtester
28,860 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Beigabe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beigabe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaɪ̯ˌɡaːbə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Beigabe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Beigabe is uncommon German at frequency #71,139 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbaɪ̯ˌɡaːbə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Beigabe, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Beigabe, spelled B-E-I-G-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Handlung, etwas dazuzutun
- 2das, was dazugetan wurde
- 3Kurzwort für Grabbeigabe: Gegenstand, der einem Verstorbenen bei seiner Beerdigung ins Grab mitgegeben wurde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Beigabe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Stimme, gestikulierende Hände und Fältchen um den Mund sind keine bloßen Beigaben zur Kommunikation.“
„Der Totenkult war allem Anschein nach schlicht, die Beigaben deuten darauf hin, dass man die Verstorbenen für ein Weiterleben nach dem Tod ausstatten wollte.“
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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