failure
[ˈfeɪljəʳ]
The verdict
“failure” is uncommon German (frequency #69,199 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,199
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fehler, Scheitern, Versagen, Versäumnis, Misserfolg
Corpus desk
Index DE-failure · failure · German
failure · rank #69,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,199
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fabrizieren
Nearest frequency peer: fabrizieren (-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 „failure“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Etsch
Etsch
30,805 corpus weight
- ext
ext
30,804 corpus weight
- fabrizieren
fabrizieren
30,803 corpus weight
- failure
failure
30,802 corpus weight
- Fallschirms…
Fallschirmspringen
30,801 corpus weight
- Fantasiewelt
Fantasiewelt
30,800 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „failure“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | failure |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfeɪljəʳ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „failure“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
failure is uncommon German at frequency #69,199 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfeɪljəʳ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fehler, Scheitern, Versagen, Versäumnis, Misserfolg".
Zero misspellings are on record for failure in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is failure, spelled F-A-I-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fehler, Scheitern, Versagen, Versäumnis, Misserfolg
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how failure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"We show that the failure mode of agglomerates can vary from disintegration to fragmentation by simply varying the adhesion properties of the particles, even for the agglomerate with low solid fraction."
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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