conversation
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The verdict
“conversation” is uncommon German (frequency #58,667 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,667
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gespräch, Unterhaltung, Konversation
Corpus desk
Index DE-conversation · conversation · German
conversation · rank #58,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,667
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH contents
Nearest frequency peer: contents (-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 „conversation“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Carls
Carls
41,339 corpus weight
- Chefetage
Chefetage
41,337 corpus weight
- chess
chess
41,336 corpus weight
- contents
contents
41,335 corpus weight
- conversation
conversation
41,334 corpus weight
- Cyborg
Cyborg
41,332 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „conversation“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conversation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „conversation“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
conversation is uncommon German at frequency #58,667 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gespräch, Unterhaltung, Konversation".
Zero misspellings are on record for conversation in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is conversation, spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Gespräch, Unterhaltung, Konversation
Synonyms
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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