Borkenkäfer
[ˈbɔʁkənˌkɛːfɐ]
The verdict
“Borkenkäfer” is uncommon German (frequency #68,081 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,081
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Käfer, der unter der Borke oder im Holz eines Baumes lebt
Corpus desk
Index DE-borkenkafer · Borkenkäfer · German
Borkenkäfer · rank #68,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,081
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH booking
Nearest frequency peer: booking (-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 „Borkenkäfer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bodenproben
Bodenproben
31,924 corpus weight
- bodenständi…
bodenständigen
31,923 corpus weight
- Bonsai
Bonsai
31,922 corpus weight
- booking
booking
31,921 corpus weight
- Borkenkäfer
Borkenkäfer
31,920 corpus weight
- BRB
BRB
31,917 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Borkenkäfer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Borkenkäfer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɔʁkənˌkɛːfɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Borkenkäfer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Borkenkäfer is uncommon German at frequency #68,081 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɔʁkənˌkɛːfɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Käfer, der unter der Borke oder im Holz eines Baumes lebt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Borkenkäfer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Borkenkäfer, spelled B-O-R-K-E-N-K-Ä-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1ein Käfer, der unter der Borke oder im Holz eines Baumes lebt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Borkenkäfer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Borkenkäfer mag es warm und trocken.
Borkenkäfer fliegen ab dem Frühjahr auf geschwächt stehende Bäume.
Synonyms
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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