Bergkette
[ˈbɛʁkˌkɛtə]
The verdict
“Bergkette” is uncommon German (frequency #74,366 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,366
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aneinanderreihung/Folge von Bergen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bergkette · Bergkette · German
Bergkette · rank #74,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,366
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Beobachtungsg…
Nearest frequency peer: Beobachtungsgabe (-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 „Bergkette“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Benennungen
Benennungen
25,638 corpus weight
- benji
benji
25,637 corpus weight
- Beobachtung…
Beobachtungsgabe
25,636 corpus weight
- Bergkette
Bergkette
25,635 corpus weight
- berka
berka
25,634 corpus weight
- berücksicht…
berücksichtigten
25,632 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bergkette“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bergkette |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɛʁkˌkɛtə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bergkette“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bergkette is uncommon German at frequency #74,366 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɛʁkˌkɛtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aneinanderreihung/Folge von Bergen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bergkette in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Bergkette, spelled B-E-R-G-K-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Aneinanderreihung/Folge von Bergen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bergkette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die ungeheure Bergkette um sich herum empfand er wie einen dunkleren Saum am Nachthimmel.“
„Durch einen ungeheuren Spalt in der Bergkette sehen wir zur Linken in weiter, weiter Ferne ein anderes Tal mit Dörfern und Hütten und gelben Ackerfeldern an den Bergen hinauf.“
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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