geboren werden
The verdict
“geboren werden” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: das Licht der Welt erblicken, zur Welt kommen; zur Welt gebracht werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geboren werden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈboːʁən ˈveːɐ̯dn̩] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “geboren werden” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for geboren werden is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈboːʁən ˈveːɐ̯dn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "das Licht der Welt erblicken, zur Welt kommen; zur Welt gebracht werden".
No misspelling variants are generated for geboren werden in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is geboren werden, spelled G-E-B-O-R-E-N- -W-E-R-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Licht der Welt erblicken, zur Welt kommen; zur Welt gebracht werden
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Using “geboren werden”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-B-O-R-E-N- -W-E-R-D-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈboːʁən ˈveːɐ̯dn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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