-bek
[-beːk]
The verdict
“-bek” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ortsnamengrundwort für fließende Gewässer, kleinere Flüsse und Orte an fließenden Gewässern (hauptsächlich in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg)
| 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) |
Where “-bek” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for -bek is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [-beːk]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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)
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.
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Using “-bek”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is --B-E-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [-beːk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.