Bigamie
[biɡaˈmiː]
The verdict
“Bigamie” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Eingehen einer weiteren Ehe, obwohl man noch verheiratet ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-bigamie · Bigamie · German
Bigamie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bigamie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [biɡaˈmiː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bigamie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bigamie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [biɡaˈmiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Eingehen einer weiteren Ehe, obwohl man noch verheiratet ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bigamie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Bigamie, spelled B-I-G-A-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1das Eingehen einer weiteren Ehe, obwohl man noch verheiratet ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bigamie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Meine Mutter solle ihm schreiben, daß Herr Krabbe sich um keine weiteren Familien meines Vaters kümmern werde und ihm auch nicht beistehe, wenn er wegen Bigamie eingesperrt würde.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.