Bibliothekswesen
[biblioˈteːksˌveːzn̩]
The verdict
“Bibliothekswesen” is uncommon German (frequency #64,109 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,109
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gesamtheit aller Tätigkeiten, der Verwaltung, der Organisation in Zusammenhang mit Bibliotheken (Büchereien)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bibliothekswesen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [biblioˈteːksˌveːzn̩] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #64,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bibliothekswesen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bibliothekswesen is uncommon German at frequency #64,109 among 72,680 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [biblioˈteːksˌveːzn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gesamtheit aller Tätigkeiten, der Verwaltung, der Organisation in Zusammenhang mit Bibliotheken (Büchereien)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bibliothekswesen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Bibliothekswesen, spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-T-H-E-K-S-W-E-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit aller Tätigkeiten, der Verwaltung, der Organisation in Zusammenhang mit Bibliotheken (Büchereien)
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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Using “Bibliothekswesen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-I-B-L-I-O-T-H-E-K-S-W-E-S-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.