Bitumen

[biˈtuːmən]

/[biˈtuːmən]/ noun

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The verdict

“Bitumen” is uncommon German (frequency #60,425 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,425
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fossiles, schwarzes, organisches Stoffgemisch, das natürlich vorkommt oder aus Erdöl gewonnen wird

Corpus desk

Index DE-bitumen · Bitumen · German

Bitumen · rank #60,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,425
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH bitterlich

Nearest frequency peer: bitterlich (-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 „Bitumen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bitumen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Bitumen
PropertyValue
HeadwordBitumen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[biˈtuːmən]
Letters7
Frequency rank#60,425
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Bitumen“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).Bitumenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „bitterlich“ (#60,424), „Bleistifte“ (#60,426), „Biosphärenreservat“ (#60,423). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „Bitumen“ bei #60,425. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Bitumen is uncommon German at frequency #60,425 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [biˈtuːmən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fossiles, schwarzes, organisches Stoffgemisch, das natürlich vorkommt oder aus Erdöl gewonnen wird".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bitumen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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 Bitumen, spelled B-I-T-U-M-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    fossiles, schwarzes, organisches Stoffgemisch, das natürlich vorkommt oder aus Erdöl gewonnen wird

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Bitumen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Bitumen wird unter anderem im Straßenbau verwendet.
  2. „Sie wurde als Asphalt, Bitumen, Erdpech, Naphtha, Peteröl oder Petroleum bezeichnet und zum Schmieren, Abdichten, manchmal zum Beleuchten und auch als Pharmazeutikum verwandt.“

This word in other languages

bitumen(English)betún(Español)bitume(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Bitumen"?
"Bitumen" is spelled B-I-T-U-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [biˈtuːmən].
What does "Bitumen" mean?
As a noun, "Bitumen" means: fossiles, schwarzes, organisches Stoffgemisch, das natürlich vorkommt oder aus Erdöl gewonnen wird
How do you pronounce "Bitumen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Bitumen" is [biˈtuːmən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Bitumen" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bitumen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

biology#60,422Brecher#60,432bubbles#60,438Carport#60,451

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list