selbes
[ˈzɛlbəs]
The verdict
“selbes” is uncommon German (frequency #59,174 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an unknown. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,174
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Neutrum des Demonstrativpronomens selbe
Corpus desk
Index DE-selbes · selbes · German
selbes · rank #59,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Seilschaften
Nearest frequency peer: Seilschaften (-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 „selbes“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- scrolls
scrolls
40,832 corpus weight
- Seilschaften
Seilschaften
40,828 corpus weight
- selbes
selbes
40,827 corpus weight
- Senate
Senate
40,826 corpus weight
- sentimental…
sentimentalen
40,824 corpus weight
- Septum
Septum
40,823 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „selbes“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selbes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈzɛlbəs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „selbes“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
selbes is uncommon German at frequency #59,174 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anunknown, transcribed [ˈzɛlbəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for selbes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is selbes, spelled S-E-L-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Neutrum des Demonstrativpronomens selbe
- 2Genitiv Singular Maskulinum des Demonstrativpronomens selbe
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum des Demonstrativpronomens selbe
- 4Akkusativ Singular Neutrum des Demonstrativpronomens selbe
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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