amalgam
[aˈmalɡam]
The verdict
“amalgam” is uncommon German (frequency #68,976 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,976
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amalgam, Quecksilberlegierung
Corpus desk
Index DE-amalgam · amalgam · German
amalgam · rank #68,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,976
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Amina
Nearest frequency peer: Amina (+2 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 „amalgam“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Alleinherrs…
Alleinherrscher
31,029 corpus weight
- allgemeingü…
allgemeingültig
31,028 corpus weight
- amalgam
amalgam
31,025 corpus weight
- Amina
Amina
31,023 corpus weight
- anfühlte
anfühlte
31,022 corpus weight
- angespornt
angespornt
31,021 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „amalgam“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amalgam |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈmalɡam] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „amalgam“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
amalgam is uncommon German at frequency #68,976 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈmalɡam]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amalgam, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is amalgam, spelled A-M-A-L-G-A-M.
Definition
- 1Amalgam, Quecksilberlegierung
- 2übertragen: Verbindung von nicht zueinander passenden Dingen: Amalgam, Gemisch
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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