betreffs
[beˈtʁɛfs]
The verdict
“betreffs” is uncommon German (frequency #91,371 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,371
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine bestimmte Sache betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-betreffs · betreffs · German
betreffs · rank #91,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,371
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH betitelten
Nearest frequency peer: betitelten (-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 „betreffs“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bestellter
bestellter
8,633 corpus weight
- Besuchers
Besuchers
8,632 corpus weight
- betitelten
betitelten
8,631 corpus weight
- betreffs
betreffs
8,630 corpus weight
- bevollmächt…
bevollmächtigt
8,628 corpus weight
- Bevölkerung…
Bevölkerungsrückgang
8,627 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „betreffs“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | betreffs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [beˈtʁɛfs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „betreffs“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
betreffs is uncommon German at frequency #91,371 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as apreposition, transcribed [beˈtʁɛfs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine bestimmte Sache betreffend".
Zero misspellings are on record for betreffs in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 betreffs, spelled B-E-T-R-E-F-F-S.
Definition
- 1eine bestimmte Sache betreffend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how betreffs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Betreffs Ihrer Beschwerde teilen wir Ihnen mit, dass wir den Vorgang in den nächsten Tagen gründlich prüfen werden.
Sein Laden ist eigentlich nichts anderes mehr als ein riesiges Lager, und betreffs Öffnungszeiten heißt es lapidar: „nach Absprache“.
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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