somebody
[ˈsʌmbədi]
The verdict
“somebody” is uncommon German (frequency #53,248 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,248
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine unbestimmte Person in unverneinten Aussagesätzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-somebody · somebody · German
somebody · rank #53,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,248
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Skalen
Nearest frequency peer: Skalen (-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 „somebody“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- siezen
siezen
46,757 corpus weight
- singers
singers
46,756 corpus weight
- Skalen
Skalen
46,754 corpus weight
- somebody
somebody
46,753 corpus weight
- Somerset
Somerset
46,752 corpus weight
- sorgfältigen
sorgfältigen
46,750 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „somebody“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | somebody |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈsʌmbədi] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „somebody“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
somebody is uncommon German at frequency #53,248 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [ˈsʌmbədi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine unbestimmte Person in unverneinten Aussagesätzen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for somebody, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is somebody, spelled S-O-M-E-B-O-D-Y.
Definition
- 1eine unbestimmte Person in unverneinten Aussagesätzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how somebody appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Somebody has stolen my dictionary, so I can't check the correctness of my contributions.
Antonyms
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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