famos
[faˈmoːs]
The verdict
“famos” is uncommon German (frequency #57,844 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,844
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - große Anerkennung/Bewunderung auslösend
Corpus desk
Index DE-famos · famos · German
famos · rank #57,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,844
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fachbuch
Nearest frequency peer: Fachbuch (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “famos”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- faces
faces
42,161 corpus weight
- Fachbuch
Fachbuch
42,158 corpus weight
- famos
famos
42,157 corpus weight
- faulenzen
faulenzen
42,155 corpus weight
- faux
faux
42,154 corpus weight
- feierst
feierst
42,153 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “famos” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | famos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [faˈmoːs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “famos” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
famos is uncommon German at frequency #57,844 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [faˈmoːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "große Anerkennung/Bewunderung auslösend".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for famos, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is famos, spelled F-A-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1große Anerkennung/Bewunderung auslösend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how famos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das ist eine famose Idee!
Die Stimmung ist famos!
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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