Bergfried
[ˈbɛʁkˌfʁiːt]
The verdict
“Bergfried” is uncommon German (frequency #75,448 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,448
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der für die letzte Verteidigung gedachte innere Hauptturm einer mittelalterlichen Burg
Corpus desk
Index DE-bergfried · Bergfried · German
Bergfried · rank #75,448 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,448
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bernsdorf
Nearest frequency peer: Bernsdorf (+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 „Bergfried“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- belgisch
belgisch
24,558 corpus weight
- Bereifung
Bereifung
24,555 corpus weight
- Bergfried
Bergfried
24,553 corpus weight
- Bernsdorf
Bernsdorf
24,552 corpus weight
- Berufsanfän…
Berufsanfänger
24,550 corpus weight
- Berufslebens
Berufslebens
24,549 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bergfried“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bergfried |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɛʁkˌfʁiːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bergfried“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bergfried is uncommon German at frequency #75,448 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɛʁkˌfʁiːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der für die letzte Verteidigung gedachte innere Hauptturm einer mittelalterlichen Burg".
Bergfried has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Bergfried, spelled B-E-R-G-F-R-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1der für die letzte Verteidigung gedachte innere Hauptturm einer mittelalterlichen Burg
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bergfried appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Bergfried etablierte sich als ein neuer Bautyp im Verlauf des 12. Jahrhunderts und prägte von ungefähr 1180 bis in das 14. Jahrhundert hinein das Bild der mitteleuropäischen Burgenlandschaft.“
„Nur der Bergfried war gut zu erkennen, denn der Bergfried stand noch in voller Größe da, die anderen Teile der Anlage aber hatten die Franzosen vor etwa dreihundert Jahren einfach zerstört.“
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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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