Buddhist
[bʊˈdɪst]
The verdict
“Buddhist” is uncommon German (frequency #59,529 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,529
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anhänger des Buddhismus
Corpus desk
Index DE-buddhist · Buddhist · German
Buddhist · rank #59,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,529
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bucks
Nearest frequency peer: Bucks (-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 „Buddhist“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- breitbeinig
breitbeinig
40,476 corpus weight
- Brüderchen
Brüderchen
40,475 corpus weight
- Bucks
Bucks
40,473 corpus weight
- Buddhist
Buddhist
40,472 corpus weight
- burner
burner
40,469 corpus weight
- Busverbindu…
Busverbindungen
40,468 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Buddhist“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Buddhist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʊˈdɪst] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Buddhist“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Buddhist is uncommon German at frequency #59,529 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bʊˈdɪst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Anhänger des Buddhismus".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Buddhist, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Buddhist, spelled B-U-D-D-H-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Anhänger des Buddhismus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Buddhist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist übergewechselt und nun Buddhist.
„Der Sohn des Majors war ein ganz normaler, ein traditioneller Buddhist auf dem Weg zur Erleuchtung.“
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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