böswillig
[ˈbøːsˌvɪlɪç]
The verdict
“böswillig” is uncommon German (frequency #77,800 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,800
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit einer bösen Absicht handelnd, keine guten Absichten habend
Corpus desk
Index DE-boswillig · böswillig · German
böswillig · rank #77,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,800
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Börsenwert
Nearest frequency peer: Börsenwert (-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 „böswillig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Burggraf
Burggraf
22,207 corpus weight
- Börsenwert
Börsenwert
22,202 corpus weight
- böswillig
böswillig
22,201 corpus weight
- Cabrios
Cabrios
22,199 corpus weight
- cavalli
cavalli
22,196 corpus weight
- charakteris…
charakteristischer
22,195 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „böswillig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | böswillig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈbøːsˌvɪlɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „böswillig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
böswillig is uncommon German at frequency #77,800 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈbøːsˌvɪlɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit einer bösen Absicht handelnd, keine guten Absichten habend".
böswillig doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is böswillig, spelled B-Ö-S-W-I-L-L-I-G.
Definition
- 1mit einer bösen Absicht handelnd, keine guten Absichten habend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how böswillig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Als ich meinen Bericht, der sich auf den englischen und den Schweizer Rundfunk stützte, zum besten gab, waren sie eher der Meinung, daß meine Version böswilliger Feindpropaganda entspreche, als zuzugeben, daß die ihre ein Greuelmärchen der Nazis sei.“
Antonyms
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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