hergegeben
[ˈheːɐ̯ɡəˌɡeːbn̩]
The verdict
“hergegeben” is uncommon German (frequency #63,411 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,411
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs hergeben
Corpus desk
Index DE-hergegeben · hergegeben · German
hergegeben · rank #63,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,411
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH herbstlich
Nearest frequency peer: herbstlich (-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 „hergegeben“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hellblaue
hellblaue
36,595 corpus weight
- herbstlich
herbstlich
36,591 corpus weight
- hergegeben
hergegeben
36,590 corpus weight
- herkam
herkam
36,589 corpus weight
- himmelblau
himmelblau
36,586 corpus weight
- hingehst
hingehst
36,585 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hergegeben“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hergegeben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈheːɐ̯ɡəˌɡeːbn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hergegeben“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hergegeben is uncommon German at frequency #63,411 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈheːɐ̯ɡəˌɡeːbn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs hergeben".
hergegeben has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is hergegeben, spelled H-E-R-G-E-G-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs hergeben
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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