Fürbitte
[ˈfyːɐ̯ˌbɪtə]
The verdict
“Fürbitte” is uncommon German (frequency #73,512 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,512
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gebet für jemand anderen (sowohl im persönlichen Gebet als auch innerhalb der kirchlichen Liturgie)
Corpus desk
Index DE-furbitte · Fürbitte · German
Fürbitte · rank #73,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,512
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fünftausend
Nearest frequency peer: fünftausend (-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 „Fürbitte“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- funkel
funkel
26,493 corpus weight
- föderale
föderale
26,491 corpus weight
- fünftausend
fünftausend
26,490 corpus weight
- Fürbitte
Fürbitte
26,489 corpus weight
- Galapagos
Galapagos
26,487 corpus weight
- garnet
garnet
26,485 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Fürbitte“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fürbitte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfyːɐ̯ˌbɪtə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Fürbitte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Fürbitte is uncommon German at frequency #73,512 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfyːɐ̯ˌbɪtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gebet für jemand anderen (sowohl im persönlichen Gebet als auch innerhalb der kirchlichen Liturgie)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Fürbitte in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Fürbitte, spelled F-Ü-R-B-I-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Gebet für jemand anderen (sowohl im persönlichen Gebet als auch innerhalb der kirchlichen Liturgie)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fürbitte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese Wünsche vertraue ich der Fürbitte der Heiligen Jungfrau, der Mutter des Erlösers an …
„Ganze Kirchspiele hatten sich vereinigt und kamen 10, 20 und mehr Meilen weit her, um der schönen Mutter Gottes zu opfern und sich ihrer Fürbitte zu empfehlen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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