handelbar
[ˈhandl̩baːɐ̯]
The verdict
“handelbar” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf einem Markt erhältlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-handelbar · handelbar · German
handelbar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | handelbar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈhandl̩baːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „handelbar“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
handelbar is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈhandl̩baːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "auf einem Markt erhältlich".
No generated misspelling entries exist for handelbar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 handelbar, spelled H-A-N-D-E-L-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1auf einem Markt erhältlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how handelbar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die chinesische Währung Renminbi ist nicht frei handelbar, der Kurs wird von der chinesischen Zentralbank festgesetz.
„Die endgültige Privatisierung der Trinkwasserversorgung wurde [Anmerkung: in Chile] Ende der 90er und Anfang der 2000er Jahre […] besiegelt. Wasser gilt seitdem als frei handelbare Ware unabhängig vom Landbesitz.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.