Bürgerlichkeit
[ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪçkaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Bürgerlichkeit” is uncommon German (frequency #99,611 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,611
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art und Weise, wie das Bürgertum sich verhält, denkt und fühlt
Corpus desk
Index DE-burgerlichkeit · Bürgerlichkeit · German
Bürgerlichkeit · rank #99,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,611
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bürgerdialog
Nearest frequency peer: Bürgerdialog (-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 „Bürgerlichkeit“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bunkers
Bunkers
399 corpus weight
- Butterschma…
Butterschmalz
397 corpus weight
- Bücherregale
Bücherregale
394 corpus weight
- Bürgerdialog
Bürgerdialog
391 corpus weight
- Bürgerlichk…
Bürgerlichkeit
390 corpus weight
- Capa
Capa
387 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bürgerlichkeit“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bürgerlichkeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪçkaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #99,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bürgerlichkeit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bürgerlichkeit is uncommon German at frequency #99,611 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪçkaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Art und Weise, wie das Bürgertum sich verhält, denkt und fühlt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bürgerlichkeit in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Bürgerlichkeit, spelled B-Ü-R-G-E-R-L-I-C-H-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1Art und Weise, wie das Bürgertum sich verhält, denkt und fühlt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bürgerlichkeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich sehnte mich nach Bürgerlichkeit oder nach dem, was ich dafür hielt.“
„Denn das Casino war eben nicht nur ein Zirkel gebildeter Bürgerlichkeit, ein Kommunikationskreis, in dem über Lessing und Moses Mendelssohn gesprochen wurde, es war auch ein Machtzentrum.“
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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