Camouflage
[kamuˈflaːʒə]
The verdict
“Camouflage” is uncommon German (frequency #65,080 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,080
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tarnung, die zum Beispiel durch Tarnmuster auf Textilien oder Militärfahrzeugen erreicht wird, respektive jedes getarnte Vorgehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-camouflage · Camouflage · German
Camouflage · rank #65,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,080
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Calder
Nearest frequency peer: Calder (-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 „Camouflage“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Böschungen
Böschungen
34,926 corpus weight
- büffeln
büffeln
34,925 corpus weight
- Calder
Calder
34,922 corpus weight
- Camouflage
Camouflage
34,921 corpus weight
- Canberra
Canberra
34,920 corpus weight
- cena
cena
34,919 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Camouflage“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Camouflage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kamuˈflaːʒə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Camouflage“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Camouflage is uncommon German at frequency #65,080 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kamuˈflaːʒə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Camouflage, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Camouflage, spelled C-A-M-O-U-F-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Tarnung, die zum Beispiel durch Tarnmuster auf Textilien oder Militärfahrzeugen erreicht wird, respektive jedes getarnte Vorgehen
- 2deckende und wasserfeste Schminke für deutliche Hautprobleme wie zum Beispiel Feuermale
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Camouflage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Gegen den von den Nazis entfesselten Moloch Krieg hatte keine Camouflage Bestand.“
Die Funktionsweise der literarischen Camouflage besteht darin, daß der Autor mit unterschiedlichen Bedeutungsebenen im Text arbeitet.
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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