Ballwechsel
[ˈbalˌvɛksl̩]
The verdict
“Ballwechsel” is uncommon German (frequency #98,148 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,148
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (in Rückschlagspielen) abwechselndes Spielen des Balls (von zwei Gegnern)
Corpus desk
Index DE-ballwechsel · Ballwechsel · German
Ballwechsel · rank #98,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,148
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Barb
Nearest frequency peer: Barb (+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 „Ballwechsel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Autobahnabf…
Autobahnabfahrt
1,857 corpus weight
- Backsteinen
Backsteinen
1,856 corpus weight
- bagno
bagno
1,855 corpus weight
- Ballwechsel
Ballwechsel
1,853 corpus weight
- Barb
Barb
1,852 corpus weight
- Baronesse
Baronesse
1,850 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ballwechsel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ballwechsel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbalˌvɛksl̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ballwechsel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ballwechsel is uncommon German at frequency #98,148 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbalˌvɛksl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(in Rückschlagspielen) abwechselndes Spielen des Balls (von zwei Gegnern)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ballwechsel, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Ballwechsel, spelled B-A-L-L-W-E-C-H-S-E-L.
Definition
- 1(in Rückschlagspielen) abwechselndes Spielen des Balls (von zwei Gegnern)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ballwechsel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Ballwechsel ist beendet, sobald einem Spieler ein Fehler unterläuft.“
„Nach minutenlanger Diskussion wurde der Ballwechsel wiederholt.“
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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