Facepalm
[ˈfɛɪ̯spaːm]
The verdict
“Facepalm” is uncommon German (frequency #52,075 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,075
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geste, in der eine Hand Teile des eigenen Gesichts bedeckt, um damit Ärger über eine Dummheit, ein unerwünschtes Ereignis und Ähnliches zum Ausdruck zu bringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-facepalm · Facepalm · German
Facepalm · rank #52,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,075
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fabeln
Nearest frequency peer: Fabeln (-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 „Facepalm“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- extrahiert
extrahiert
47,930 corpus weight
- Fabeln
Fabeln
47,927 corpus weight
- Facepalm
Facepalm
47,926 corpus weight
- Fachanwalt
Fachanwalt
47,925 corpus weight
- Feinkost
Feinkost
47,923 corpus weight
- fertiger
fertiger
47,922 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Facepalm“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Facepalm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛɪ̯spaːm] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Facepalm“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Facepalm is uncommon German at frequency #52,075 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɛɪ̯spaːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Geste, in der eine Hand Teile des eigenen Gesichts bedeckt, um damit Ärger über eine Dummheit, ein unerwünschtes Ereignis und Ähnliches zum Ausdruck zu bringen".
Facepalm doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Facepalm, spelled F-A-C-E-P-A-L-M.
Definition
- 1Geste, in der eine Hand Teile des eigenen Gesichts bedeckt, um damit Ärger über eine Dummheit, ein unerwünschtes Ereignis und Ähnliches zum Ausdruck zu bringen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Facepalm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich antworte mit ein paar Emojis: Pizza, Schulterzucken, Smiley, Facepalm, Sonne.“
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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