Drahtesel
[ˈdʁaːtˌʔeːzl̩]
The verdict
“Drahtesel” is uncommon German (frequency #66,132 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,132
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fahrrad
Corpus desk
Index DE-drahtesel · Drahtesel · German
Drahtesel · rank #66,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,132
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH drehende
Nearest frequency peer: drehende (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Drahtesel”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- downing
downing
33,872 corpus weight
- DPs
DPs
33,871 corpus weight
- Drahtesel
Drahtesel
33,869 corpus weight
- drehende
drehende
33,868 corpus weight
- dreidimensi…
dreidimensional
33,867 corpus weight
- durchgebran…
durchgebrannt
33,866 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Drahtesel” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Drahtesel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdʁaːtˌʔeːzl̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Drahtesel” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Drahtesel is uncommon German at frequency #66,132 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdʁaːtˌʔeːzl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fahrrad".
Zero misspellings are on record for Drahtesel in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Drahtesel, spelled D-R-A-H-T-E-S-E-L.
Definition
- 1Fahrrad
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Drahtesel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie nutzten den Tag, um mit dem Drahtesel an den See zu fahren.
„Rote, pinke, gelbe, weiße und blaue Papierstreifen schmückten meinen Drahtesel.“
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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