Fallschirmsprung
[ˈfalʃɪʁmˌʃpʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Fallschirmsprung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sprung (meist aus einem Flugzeug), bei dem ein Fallschirm zur sicheren Landung verwendet wird
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Index DE-fallschirmsprung · Fallschirmsprung · German
Fallschirmsprung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fallschirmsprung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfalʃɪʁmˌʃpʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Fallschirmsprung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Fallschirmsprung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfalʃɪʁmˌʃpʁʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sprung (meist aus einem Flugzeug), bei dem ein Fallschirm zur sicheren Landung verwendet wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for Fallschirmsprung in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Fallschirmsprung, spelled F-A-L-L-S-C-H-I-R-M-S-P-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Sprung (meist aus einem Flugzeug), bei dem ein Fallschirm zur sicheren Landung verwendet wird
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.