Bun

[ban]

/[ban]/ noun

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The verdict

“Bun” is uncommon German (frequency #55,209 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,209
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiches Brötchen für Hamburger und Hot Dogs

Corpus desk

Index DE-bun · Bun · German

Bun · rank #55,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,209
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH buk

Nearest frequency peer: buk (-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 „Bun“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bun“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Bun
PropertyValue
HeadwordBun
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ban]
Letters3
Frequency rank#55,209
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Bun“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Bunfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „buk“ (#55,208), „Bundeskartellamt“ (#55,210), „buchstabieren“ (#55,207). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „Bun“ bei #55,209. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Bun is uncommon German at frequency #55,209 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ban]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weiches Brötchen für Hamburger und Hot Dogs".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bun, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Bun, spelled B-U-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    weiches Brötchen für Hamburger und Hot Dogs

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Bun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Die Schnittflächen der Buns werden vor dem Belegen in der Regel geröstet.
  2. Mit einem klassischen Bun, also diesem weichen Hamburger-Brötchen, das aber zusätzlich mit Brezellauge behandelt worden war, sodass es den charakteristischen Geschmack von Laugengebäck angenommen hatte.

Synonyms

Hamburgerbrötchen

This word in other languages

bun(English)

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 "Bun"?
"Bun" is spelled B-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ban].
What does "Bun" mean?
As a noun, "Bun" means: weiches Brötchen für Hamburger und Hot Dogs
How do you pronounce "Bun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Bun" is [ban]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Bun" come from?
"Bun" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bun", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

buk#55,208EDM#55,263amo#55,107Ahn#55,096

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list