bent
[bɛnt]
The verdict
“bent” is uncommon German (frequency #51,154 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,154
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gebogen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bent · bent · German
bent · rank #51,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,154
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bemühung
Nearest frequency peer: Bemühung (-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 „bent“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bekehrt
bekehrt
48,849 corpus weight
- Bemühung
Bemühung
48,848 corpus weight
- bent
bent
48,847 corpus weight
- Benzol
Benzol
48,846 corpus weight
- beratenden
beratenden
48,845 corpus weight
- Berufswunsch
Berufswunsch
48,844 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bent“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bɛnt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bent“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bent is uncommon German at frequency #51,154 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [bɛnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bent, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bent, spelled B-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1gebogen
- 2entschlossen
- 3Britische Umgangssprache: korrumpiert
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was bent on proving his rival wrong.
In some countries you need to learn how to live with bent policemen.
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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