borne

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The verdict

“borne” is uncommon German (frequency #74,400 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,400
frequency rank, German
72,680
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs bear

Key facts for borne
PropertyValue
Headwordborne
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#74,400
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “borne” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). borne lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

borne is uncommon German at frequency #74,400 among 72,680 “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

  1. 1
    Partizip 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "borne"?
"borne" is spelled B-O-R-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "borne" mean?
As a verb, "borne" means: Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs bear
How do you pronounce "borne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "borne" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "borne" come from?
"borne" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “borne”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is B-O-R-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Other uncommon German words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list