Karben
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The verdict
“Karben” is uncommon German (frequency #68,386 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,386
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-karben · Karben · German
Karben · rank #68,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,386
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Karikaturist
Nearest frequency peer: Karikaturist (+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 „Karben“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kalbfleisch
Kalbfleisch
31,620 corpus weight
- Kanacken
Kanacken
31,618 corpus weight
- Kanonenfutt…
Kanonenfutter
31,617 corpus weight
- Karben
Karben
31,615 corpus weight
- Karikaturist
Karikaturist
31,614 corpus weight
- KGS
KGS
31,611 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Karben“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Karben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Karben“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Karben is uncommon German at frequency #68,386 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland".
No misspelling variants are generated for Karben in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Karben, spelled K-A-R-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Karben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Karben grenzt unter anderem an Bad Homburg, Frankfurt am Main und Bad Vilbel.
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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