-bek
[-beːk]
The verdict
“-bek” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper 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) - Ortsnamengrundwort für fließende Gewässer, kleinere Flüsse und Orte an fließenden Gewässern (hauptsächlich in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg)
Corpus desk
Index DE-bek · -bek · German
-bek · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" 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 | -bek |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [-beːk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „-bek“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
-bek is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [-beːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ortsnamengrundwort für fließende Gewässer, kleinere Flüsse und Orte an fließenden Gewässern (hauptsächlich in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for -bek in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is -bek, spelled --B-E-K.
Definition
- 1Ortsnamengrundwort für fließende Gewässer, kleinere Flüsse und Orte an fließenden Gewässern (hauptsächlich in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how -bek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Schwarzenbek, Wandsbek
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.