fal
[fɒl]
The verdict
“fal” is uncommon German (frequency #71,316 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,316
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Wand
Corpus desk
Index DE-fal · fal · German
fal · rank #71,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,316
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fai
Nearest frequency peer: fai (-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 „fal“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fahrschulen
Fahrschulen
28,688 corpus weight
- Fahrstunden
Fahrstunden
28,687 corpus weight
- fai
fai
28,686 corpus weight
- fal
fal
28,685 corpus weight
- Fanatikern
Fanatikern
28,684 corpus weight
- Farne
Farne
28,683 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „fal“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɒl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „fal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
fal is uncommon German at frequency #71,316 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɒl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Wand".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fal, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 fal, spelled F-A-L.
Definition
- 1die Wand
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Állítsd a biciglit a falhoz.
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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