Busfahren
[ˈbʊsˌfaːʁən]
The verdict
“Busfahren” is uncommon German (frequency #91,421 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,421
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Fahren in einem Bus als Fahrgast
Corpus desk
Index DE-busfahren · Busfahren · German
Busfahren · rank #91,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,421
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH butters
Nearest frequency peer: butters (+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 „Busfahren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Buchautorin
Buchautorin
8,589 corpus weight
- Buchenholz
Buchenholz
8,588 corpus weight
- bucklige
bucklige
8,586 corpus weight
- Busfahren
Busfahren
8,580 corpus weight
- butters
butters
8,579 corpus weight
- castelli
castelli
8,571 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Busfahren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Busfahren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʊsˌfaːʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Busfahren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Busfahren is uncommon German at frequency #91,421 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbʊsˌfaːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Busfahren doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Busfahren, spelled B-U-S-F-A-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1das Fahren in einem Bus als Fahrgast
- 2das Fahren eines Busses als Busfahrer
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Busfahren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn sich Ängste aber auf Situationen oder Objekte beziehen, von denen (hier zu Lande) keine Gefahr ausgeht – etwa Spinnen, Busfahren (Agoraphobie) oder fremde Menschen (soziale Phobie) –, und wenn sie den Alltag oder die Lebensqualität übermäßig einschränken, gelten sie als Angststörung.“
„Wie viele andere Dinge des Lebens auch geschieht Busfahren damals strikt nach Rassen getrennt: vorne dürfen nur weiße Menschen sitzen, hinten nur schwarze.“
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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