bellum

noun

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The verdict

“bellum” is uncommon German (frequency #91,354 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,354
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Krieg

Corpus desk

Index DE-bellum · bellum · German

bellum · rank #91,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,354
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH belästigte

Nearest frequency peer: belästigte (+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 „bellum“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bellum“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bellum
PropertyValue
Headwordbellum
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#91,354
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „bellum“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).bellumfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „belästigte“ (#91,355), „bemerkenswertesten“ (#91,356), „Beisitzern“ (#91,351). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „bellum“ bei #91,354. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bellum is uncommon German at frequency #91,354 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for bellum in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is bellum, spelled B-E-L-L-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Krieg
  2. 2
    Kampf, Schlacht
  3. 3
    Zwist, Streit, Nneinigkeit

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bellum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „is nunc Amphitruo praefectust legionibus, / nam cum Telobois bellum est Thebano poplo.“ (Plaut. Amph. 100–101)
  2. „victores victis hostibus legiones reveniunt domum, / duello exstincto maxumo atque internecatis hostibus.“ (Plaut. Amph. 188–189)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bellum"?
"bellum" is spelled B-E-L-L-U-M.
What does "bellum" mean?
As a noun, "bellum" means: Krieg
What language does "bellum" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bellum", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Bisons#91,391covert#91,445Debüts#91,461Ölberg#91,212

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list