selbig
[ˈzɛlbɪç]
The verdict
“selbig” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der eben Genannte
Corpus desk
Index DE-selbig · selbig · German
selbig · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | selbig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛlbɪç] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „selbig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
selbig is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as apronoun, transcribed [ˈzɛlbɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der eben Genannte".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for selbig, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 selbig, spelled S-E-L-B-I-G.
Definition
- 1der eben Genannte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how selbig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn es nur den göttlichsten von allen Wesenheiten eigen ist, sich immer selbig und in gleicher Weise zu verhalten, wie Platon im Politikos (269 D 5f) sagt, und der Demiurg zu den göttlichsten Wesenheiten gehört, dann ist es ihm in einzigartiger Weise eigen, sich immer selbig und in gleicher Weise zu verhalten.“
„Zu klären sei noch, so brummt er, von welchem Ende der Wurst selbige zu betrachten sei: ‚Wo ist da unser Standpunkt?‘“
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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.