deaf
[dɛf]
The verdict
“deaf” is uncommon German (frequency #81,415 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,415
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - taub, gehörlos
Corpus desk
Index DE-deaf · deaf · German
deaf · rank #81,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,415
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Defekts
Nearest frequency peer: Defekts (+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 „deaf“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- deaf
deaf
18,586 corpus weight
- Defekts
Defekts
18,585 corpus weight
- defizitär
defizitär
18,584 corpus weight
- Deformation
Deformation
18,583 corpus weight
- degradieren
degradieren
18,582 corpus weight
- dehnbar
dehnbar
18,581 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „deaf“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deaf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [dɛf] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „deaf“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
deaf is uncommon German at frequency #81,415 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [dɛf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
deaf doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is deaf, spelled D-E-A-F.
Definition
- 1taub, gehörlos
- 2schwerhörig
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deaf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deaf people were not allowed to use sign language.
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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