bound
[baʊnd]
The verdict
“bound” is uncommon German (frequency #61,368 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,368
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs bind
Corpus desk
Index DE-bound · bound · German
bound · rank #61,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,368
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bosnisch
Nearest frequency peer: Bosnisch (-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 „bound“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bodden
Bodden
38,638 corpus weight
- boku
boku
38,636 corpus weight
- Bosnisch
Bosnisch
38,634 corpus weight
- bound
bound
38,633 corpus weight
- brainstormi…
brainstorming
38,632 corpus weight
- breitesten
breitesten
38,630 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bound“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bound |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [baʊnd] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bound“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bound is uncommon German at frequency #61,368 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [baʊnd]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs bind".
bound has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is bound, spelled B-O-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs bind
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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