Beliebigkeit
[bəˈliːbɪçkaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Beliebigkeit” is uncommon German (frequency #63,150 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,150
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutscher Ausdruck für Arbitrarität
Corpus desk
Index DE-beliebigkeit · Beliebigkeit · German
Beliebigkeit · rank #63,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,150
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bekleckert
Nearest frequency peer: bekleckert (-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 „Beliebigkeit“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- beheimatete
beheimatete
36,855 corpus weight
- beiderseiti…
beiderseitigen
36,854 corpus weight
- bekleckert
bekleckert
36,852 corpus weight
- Beliebigkeit
Beliebigkeit
36,851 corpus weight
- Belize
Belize
36,850 corpus weight
- beratender
beratender
36,847 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Beliebigkeit“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beliebigkeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈliːbɪçkaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Beliebigkeit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Beliebigkeit is uncommon German at frequency #63,150 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bəˈliːbɪçkaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Beliebigkeit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Beliebigkeit, spelled B-E-L-I-E-B-I-G-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1deutscher Ausdruck für Arbitrarität
- 2Unentschiedenheit, Wankelmut, Ziellosigkeit im Hinblick auf verschiedene Möglichkeiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Beliebigkeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beliebigkeit liegt oft im Verhältnis zwischen der Form und der Bedeutung eines sprachlichen Zeichens vor.
Mit Beliebigkeit ist gemeint, dass zwischen der Form und der Bedeutung eines Zeichens kein Abbildverhältnis besteht. Die Lautform von „Stuhl“ z.B. bildet nicht die Bedeutung dieses Wortes ab.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).