Erstwähler
[ˈɛʁstˌvɛːlɐ]
The verdict
“Erstwähler” is uncommon German (frequency #75,598 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,598
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die zum ersten Mal wählt
Corpus desk
Index DE-erstwahler · Erstwähler · German
Erstwähler · rank #75,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,598
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Erstversorgung
Nearest frequency peer: Erstversorgung (-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 „Erstwähler“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ersatzverke…
Ersatzverkehr
24,406 corpus weight
- Erstflug
Erstflug
24,405 corpus weight
- Erstversorg…
Erstversorgung
24,404 corpus weight
- Erstwähler
Erstwähler
24,403 corpus weight
- erträgliche
erträgliche
24,402 corpus weight
- Erzählens
Erzählens
24,401 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Erstwähler“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erstwähler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛʁstˌvɛːlɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Erstwähler“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Erstwähler is uncommon German at frequency #75,598 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɛʁstˌvɛːlɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die zum ersten Mal wählt".
Erstwähler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Erstwähler, spelled E-R-S-T-W-Ä-H-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die zum ersten Mal wählt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Erstwähler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Demokraten beschlossen, 30 Millionen Dollar in eine Kampagne zu investieren, die sich an Erstwähler richtet, was sich bereits im Wahlkampf Obamas bestens bewährt hatte.“
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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