Cameo
[ˈkɛmi̯o]
The verdict
“Cameo” is uncommon German (frequency #82,615 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,615
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kurzer Auftritt einer bekannten Persönlichkeit in einem Film oder auf der Bühne
Corpus desk
Index DE-cameo · Cameo · German
Cameo · rank #82,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,615
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Callboy
Nearest frequency peer: Callboy (-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 „Cameo“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- CAF
CAF
17,388 corpus weight
- Callboy
Callboy
17,387 corpus weight
- Cameo
Cameo
17,386 corpus weight
- canary
canary
17,385 corpus weight
- captains
captains
17,384 corpus weight
- causes
causes
17,383 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Cameo“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cameo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɛmi̯o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Cameo“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Cameo is uncommon German at frequency #82,615 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɛmi̯o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kurzer Auftritt einer bekannten Persönlichkeit in einem Film oder auf der Bühne".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cameo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Cameo, spelled C-A-M-E-O.
Definition
- 1kurzer Auftritt einer bekannten Persönlichkeit in einem Film oder auf der Bühne
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cameo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cameos werden häufig nicht im Vorspann angekündigt.
Synonyms
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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