Bürgergesellschaft
[ˈbʏʁɡɐɡəˌzɛlʃaft]
The verdict
“Bürgergesellschaft” is uncommon German (frequency #79,004 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,004
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesellschaft, die von den Bürgern gestaltet wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-burgergesellschaft · Bürgergesellschaft · German
Bürgergesellschaft · rank #79,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,004
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bückt
Nearest frequency peer: bückt (-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 „Bürgergesellschaft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bussard
Bussard
21,001 corpus weight
- bückt
bückt
20,998 corpus weight
- Bürgergesel…
Bürgergesellschaft
20,997 corpus weight
- Bürgerrecht…
Bürgerrechten
20,996 corpus weight
- Bürgerschule
Bürgerschule
20,995 corpus weight
- Caipirinha
Caipirinha
20,993 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bürgergesellschaft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bürgergesellschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʏʁɡɐɡəˌzɛlʃaft] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Frequency rank | #79,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bürgergesellschaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bürgergesellschaft is uncommon German at frequency #79,004 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbʏʁɡɐɡəˌzɛlʃaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gesellschaft, die von den Bürgern gestaltet wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bürgergesellschaft in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Bürgergesellschaft, spelled B-Ü-R-G-E-R-G-E-S-E-L-L-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Gesellschaft, die von den Bürgern gestaltet wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bürgergesellschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie interessierte sich für die Frage, wie sich der historische Umbruch von der traditionellen, ständisch-patriarchalischen Ordnung zu einer modernen Bürgergesellschaft auf das Innere der Menschen auswirkte.“
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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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