alcohol
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The verdict
“alcohol” is uncommon German (frequency #63,095 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,095
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Alkohol
Corpus desk
Index DE-alcohol · alcohol · German
alcohol · rank #63,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,095
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH akustischer
Nearest frequency peer: akustischer (-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 „alcohol“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Akronym
Akronym
36,909 corpus weight
- aktivierten
aktivierten
36,908 corpus weight
- akustischer
akustischer
36,907 corpus weight
- alcohol
alcohol
36,906 corpus weight
- allergischen
allergischen
36,905 corpus weight
- Alpakas
Alpakas
36,904 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „alcohol“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcohol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „alcohol“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
alcohol is uncommon German at frequency #63,095 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Alkohol".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alcohol, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 alcohol, spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L.
Definition
- 1der Alkohol
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).