Armreif
[ˈaʁmˌʁaɪ̯f]
The verdict
“Armreif” is uncommon German (frequency #87,407 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,407
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - als Schmuck getragener Reif um Arm oder Handgelenk
Corpus desk
Index DE-armreif · Armreif · German
Armreif · rank #87,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,407
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH armed
Nearest frequency peer: armed (-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 „Armreif“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Arbitrage
Arbitrage
12,598 corpus weight
- aristotelis…
aristotelischen
12,596 corpus weight
- armed
armed
12,595 corpus weight
- Armreif
Armreif
12,594 corpus weight
- armseliger
armseliger
12,593 corpus weight
- Arschgeige
Arschgeige
12,592 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Armreif“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Armreif |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʁmˌʁaɪ̯f] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Armreif“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Armreif is uncommon German at frequency #87,407 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaʁmˌʁaɪ̯f]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "als Schmuck getragener Reif um Arm oder Handgelenk".
Zero misspellings are on record for Armreif in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Armreif, spelled A-R-M-R-E-I-F.
Definition
- 1als Schmuck getragener Reif um Arm oder Handgelenk
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Armreif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Schon die Wikinger ritzten Abbildungen des Tiers in Armreife und Metallbeschläge, und während der Völkerwanderung wurden Fibeln der Franken und Alemannen mit Schlangen verziert.“
„Verschwunden ist auch der goldene Armreif, den er seiner Frau einmal aus Usbekistan mitgebracht hat, und ein Ring, den sie vom Zahnarzt Krause, ihrem Liebhaber vor seiner Zeit, einmal geschenkt bekommen hat – mit einem Saphir in der Mitte, ringsherum kleine Brillanten.“
Synonyms
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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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