aircraft
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The verdict
“aircraft” is uncommon German (frequency #77,645 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,645
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fluggerät, Flugsystem, Luftfahrzeug
Corpus desk
Index DE-aircraft · aircraft · German
aircraft · rank #77,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,645
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH akquiriert
Nearest frequency peer: akquiriert (+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 „aircraft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- agon
agon
22,360 corpus weight
- aircraft
aircraft
22,356 corpus weight
- akquiriert
akquiriert
22,355 corpus weight
- Aktenordner
Aktenordner
22,354 corpus weight
- alberner
alberner
22,353 corpus weight
- Alimente
Alimente
22,352 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „aircraft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aircraft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „aircraft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
aircraft is uncommon German at frequency #77,645 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fluggerät, Flugsystem, Luftfahrzeug".
aircraft has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is aircraft, spelled A-I-R-C-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Fluggerät, Flugsystem, Luftfahrzeug
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aircraft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"This book explains aircraft structures so as to provide a basic understanding of the subject and the terminology used, as well as illustrating some of the problems."
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).