forbidden
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The verdict
“forbidden” is uncommon German (frequency #98,437 among 45,736 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,437
- frequency rank, German
- 45,736
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs forbid
Corpus desk
Index DE-forbidden · forbidden · German
forbidden · rank #98,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,437
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,736
- PHOTO-FINISH Forstmann
Nearest frequency peer: Forstmann (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “forbidden”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Flugschrift…
Flugschriften
1,568 corpus weight
- Flugverbots…
Flugverbotszone
1,567 corpus weight
- Flügeltüren
Flügeltüren
1,566 corpus weight
- forbidden
forbidden
1,564 corpus weight
- Forstmann
Forstmann
1,563 corpus weight
- Frachtschif…
Frachtschiffe
1,562 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “forbidden” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forbidden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “forbidden” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
forbidden is uncommon German at frequency #98,437 among 45,736 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs forbid".
forbidden doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is forbidden, spelled F-O-R-B-I-D-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs forbid
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.