argon
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The verdict
“argon” is uncommon German (frequency #57,666 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,666
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Argon
Corpus desk
Index DE-argon · argon · German
argon · rank #57,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,666
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Arlt
Nearest frequency peer: Arlt (+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 „argon“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Apothekerin
Apothekerin
42,339 corpus weight
- Arbeitstagen
Arbeitstagen
42,337 corpus weight
- argon
argon
42,335 corpus weight
- Arlt
Arlt
42,334 corpus weight
- Artikulation
Artikulation
42,333 corpus weight
- Atempause
Atempause
42,332 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „argon“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „argon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
argon is uncommon German at frequency #57,666 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Argon".
argon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 argon, spelled A-R-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Argon
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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