Drahtseil
[ˈdʁaːtˌzaɪ̯l]
The verdict
“Drahtseil” is uncommon German (frequency #71,241 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,241
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seil, dessen einzelne Litzen und Kardeelen nicht aus Fasern, sondern aus Stahl bestehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-drahtseil · Drahtseil · German
Drahtseil · rank #71,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,241
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dorsale
Nearest frequency peer: dorsale (-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 „Drahtseil“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Docht
Docht
28,765 corpus weight
- Dogen
Dogen
28,764 corpus weight
- dogmatischen
dogmatischen
28,763 corpus weight
- dorsale
dorsale
28,761 corpus weight
- Drahtseil
Drahtseil
28,760 corpus weight
- drawing
drawing
28,759 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Drahtseil“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Drahtseil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdʁaːtˌzaɪ̯l] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Drahtseil“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Drahtseil is uncommon German at frequency #71,241 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdʁaːtˌzaɪ̯l]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Seil, dessen einzelne Litzen und Kardeelen nicht aus Fasern, sondern aus Stahl bestehen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Drahtseil in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Drahtseil, spelled D-R-A-H-T-S-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Seil, dessen einzelne Litzen und Kardeelen nicht aus Fasern, sondern aus Stahl bestehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Drahtseil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Zirkuskünstler balanciert auf einem Drahtseil.
„Ab und zu tauchen die Fassaden von Gebäuden hinter dem Park in den blauen Fluten auf, aber das Drahtseil selbst, das oben im Dunkel gespannt ist, bleibt unsichtbar.“
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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