borne
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The verdict
“borne” is uncommon German (frequency #74,400 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,400
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs bear
Corpus desk
Index DE-borne · borne · German
borne · rank #74,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,400
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bollinger
Nearest frequency peer: Bollinger (-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 „borne“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bodenschätz…
Bodenschätzen
25,603 corpus weight
- Bollinger
Bollinger
25,602 corpus weight
- borne
borne
25,601 corpus weight
- Boulevardpr…
Boulevardpresse
25,600 corpus weight
- Boxengasse
Boxengasse
25,599 corpus weight
- Boyer
Boyer
25,598 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „borne“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „borne“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
borne is uncommon German at frequency #74,400 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs bear".
No generated misspelling entries exist for borne in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 borne, spelled B-O-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs bear
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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