wohlbekannt
[ˈvoːlbəˌkant]
The verdict
“wohlbekannt” is uncommon German (frequency #84,804 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,804
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - allgemein und gut bekannt, von vielen gekannt
Corpus desk
Index DE-wohlbekannt · wohlbekannt · German
wohlbekannt · rank #84,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,804
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wohnbauten
Nearest frequency peer: Wohnbauten (+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 „wohlbekannt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wirrungen
Wirrungen
15,200 corpus weight
- wittere
wittere
15,199 corpus weight
- wohlbekannt
wohlbekannt
15,197 corpus weight
- Wohnbauten
Wohnbauten
15,196 corpus weight
- Wohnformen
Wohnformen
15,195 corpus weight
- wohnlich
wohnlich
15,194 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wohlbekannt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wohlbekannt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvoːlbəˌkant] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wohlbekannt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wohlbekannt is uncommon German at frequency #84,804 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈvoːlbəˌkant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "allgemein und gut bekannt, von vielen gekannt".
wohlbekannt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is wohlbekannt, spelled W-O-H-L-B-E-K-A-N-N-T.
Definition
- 1allgemein und gut bekannt, von vielen gekannt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wohlbekannt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Angeklagte ist der Justiz wohlbekannt.“
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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