fagus

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The verdict

“fagus” is uncommon German (frequency #92,871 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,871
frequency rank, German
3,474
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Buche (Fagus)

Corpus desk

Index DE-fagus · fagus · German

fagus · rank #92,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,871
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,474
  • PHOTO-FINISH fahlen

Nearest frequency peer: fahlen (+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 „fagus“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fagus
PropertyValue
Headwordfagus
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#92,871
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „fagus“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).fagusfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „fahlen“ (#92,872), „Exportweltmeister“ (#92,869), „fahrig“ (#92,873). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „fagus“ bei #92,871. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fagus is uncommon German at frequency #92,871 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Buche (Fagus)".

No generated misspelling entries exist for fagus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fagus, spelled F-A-G-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Buche (Fagus)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. „Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi / silvestrem tenui Musam meditaris avena.“ (Verg. ecl. 1,1–2)

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 "fagus"?
"fagus" is spelled F-A-G-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "fagus" mean?
As a noun, "fagus" means: Buche (Fagus)
How do you pronounce "fagus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fagus" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Feten#92,887freed#92,913frogs#92,922gable#92,937

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list