Honigbiene
[ˈhoːnɪçˌbiːnə]
The verdict
“Honigbiene” is uncommon German (frequency #74,716 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,716
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertreter der Insektengattung Apis, welche teilweise von Imkern zur Honigerzeugung gehalten werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-honigbiene · Honigbiene · German
Honigbiene · rank #74,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,716
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH honest
Nearest frequency peer: honest (-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 „Honigbiene“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Holzbrücke
Holzbrücke
25,289 corpus weight
- Holzrahmen
Holzrahmen
25,287 corpus weight
- honest
honest
25,286 corpus weight
- Honigbiene
Honigbiene
25,285 corpus weight
- horchen
horchen
25,284 corpus weight
- Hypothalamus
Hypothalamus
25,281 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Honigbiene“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Honigbiene |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhoːnɪçˌbiːnə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Honigbiene“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Honigbiene is uncommon German at frequency #74,716 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhoːnɪçˌbiːnə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Honigbiene doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Honigbiene, spelled H-O-N-I-G-B-I-E-N-E.
Definition
- 1Vertreter der Insektengattung Apis, welche teilweise von Imkern zur Honigerzeugung gehalten werden
- 2meist die europäische oder westliche Honigbiene Apis mellifera
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Honigbiene appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Weltweit gibt es neun Arten von Honigbienen.
Honigbienen gehören zu den wenigen Insektenarten, die als Nutztiere gehalten werden.
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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