Ballistik
[baˈlɪstɪk]
The verdict
“Ballistik” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lehre von den geworfenen Körpern
Corpus desk
Index DE-ballistik · Ballistik · German
Ballistik · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ballistik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈlɪstɪk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ballistik“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ballistik is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [baˈlɪstɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lehre von den geworfenen Körpern".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ballistik in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Ballistik, spelled B-A-L-L-I-S-T-I-K.
Definition
- 1Lehre von den geworfenen Körpern
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ballistik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auch beim Heer nutzt man die Kenntnisse der Ballistik zum Berechnen der Geschossbahnen.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.