Beiname
[ˈbaɪ̯ˌnaːmə]
The verdict
“Beiname” is uncommon German (frequency #77,736 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,736
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zusatz zum eigentlichen Namen
Corpus desk
Index DE-beiname · Beiname · German
Beiname · rank #77,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,736
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Beigeordnete
Nearest frequency peer: Beigeordnete (-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 „Beiname“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- befremdet
befremdet
22,268 corpus weight
- behördlicher
behördlicher
22,267 corpus weight
- Beigeordnete
Beigeordnete
22,266 corpus weight
- Beiname
Beiname
22,265 corpus weight
- Beines
Beines
22,264 corpus weight
- beinhalteten
beinhalteten
22,263 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Beiname“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beiname |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaɪ̯ˌnaːmə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Beiname“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Beiname is uncommon German at frequency #77,736 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbaɪ̯ˌnaːmə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Beiname in our index, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Beiname, spelled B-E-I-N-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Zusatz zum eigentlichen Namen
- 2charakterisierendes, typisierendes Adjektiv
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Beiname appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manchen Herrschern verlieh man charakterisierende Beinamen: So hatte Zar Iwan IV den Beinamen „der Schreckliche“.
„Die Beinamen dienen hauptsächlich der Unterscheidung von anderen Personen gleichen Namens, beziehen sich aber, anders als die späteren Familiennamen, auf eine einzelne Person; mit dieser sind sie konventionell fest verbunden.“
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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