delight
[dɪˈlaɪt]
The verdict
“delight” is uncommon German (frequency #88,801 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,801
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Freude, das Vergnügen
Corpus desk
Index DE-delight · delight · German
delight · rank #88,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,801
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH demenzkranken
Nearest frequency peer: demenzkranken (+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 „delight“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Datentypen
Datentypen
11,207 corpus weight
- delight
delight
11,200 corpus weight
- demenzkrank…
demenzkranken
11,199 corpus weight
- Demission
Demission
11,198 corpus weight
- dengue
dengue
11,197 corpus weight
- Diebes
Diebes
11,193 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „delight“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | delight |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɪˈlaɪt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „delight“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
delight is uncommon German at frequency #88,801 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [dɪˈlaɪt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Freude, das Vergnügen".
delight doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 delight, spelled D-E-L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1die Freude, das Vergnügen
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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