bildschön
[ˌbɪltˈʃøːn]
The verdict
“bildschön” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr schön
Corpus desk
Index DE-bildschon · bildschön · German
bildschön · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | bildschön |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌbɪltˈʃøːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bildschön“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bildschön is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˌbɪltˈʃøːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sehr schön".
bildschön has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bildschön, spelled B-I-L-D-S-C-H-Ö-N.
Definition
- 1sehr schön
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bildschön appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Aber auch d’Urquijo, bildschön und beschränkten Geistes, hegte Vorurteile — nur freilich andere als die Rahel bekannten: In den Freunden Rahels sah der eifersüchtige Spanier lauter Liebhaber.“
„Die Knaben vor der Tafel mit Inschrift konnten allenfalls ein Jahr später, entweder bei der österlichen Einschulung der neuen Erstkläßler oder auf den ihnen gebliebenen Fotos entziffern, daß jene bildschönen Aufnahmen anläßlich ihres ersten Schultages gemacht worden waren.“
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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.