Durchquerung
[dʊʁçˈkveːʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Durchquerung” is uncommon German (frequency #92,796 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,796
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Zurücklegen eines Weges durch einen Raum oder ein Gebiet (fahrend, fliegend oder gehend)
Corpus desk
Index DE-durchquerung · Durchquerung · German
Durchquerung · rank #92,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,796
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH durchgesehene
Nearest frequency peer: durchgesehene (-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 „Durchquerung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Druide
Druide
7,212 corpus weight
- durchgeknal…
durchgeknallter
7,207 corpus weight
- durchgesehe…
durchgesehene
7,206 corpus weight
- Durchquerung
Durchquerung
7,205 corpus weight
- durstigen
durstigen
7,203 corpus weight
- Echternach
Echternach
7,198 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Durchquerung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Durchquerung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dʊʁçˈkveːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #92,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Durchquerung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Durchquerung is uncommon German at frequency #92,796 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [dʊʁçˈkveːʁʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Zurücklegen eines Weges durch einen Raum oder ein Gebiet (fahrend, fliegend oder gehend)".
Zero misspellings are on record for Durchquerung in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Durchquerung, spelled D-U-R-C-H-Q-U-E-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1das Zurücklegen eines Weges durch einen Raum oder ein Gebiet (fahrend, fliegend oder gehend)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Durchquerung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die erste Durchquerung Sibiriens durch die Kosaken erfolgte seinerzeit relativ weit im Norden.“
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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