Faustball
[ˈfaʊ̯stˌbal]
The verdict
“Faustball” is uncommon German (frequency #69,202 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,202
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Ballsportart, bei der zwei Mannschaften den Ball mit dem Unterarm oder der Faust über ein Band schlagen müssen
Corpus desk
Index DE-faustball · Faustball · German
Faustball · rank #69,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,202
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fantasiewelt
Nearest frequency peer: Fantasiewelt (-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 „Faustball“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- failure
failure
30,802 corpus weight
- Fallschirms…
Fallschirmspringen
30,801 corpus weight
- Fantasiewelt
Fantasiewelt
30,800 corpus weight
- Faustball
Faustball
30,799 corpus weight
- Feldlager
Feldlager
30,798 corpus weight
- Fernsehgerät
Fernsehgerät
30,796 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Faustball“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Faustball |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfaʊ̯stˌbal] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Faustball“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Faustball is uncommon German at frequency #69,202 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfaʊ̯stˌbal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Faustball in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Faustball, spelled F-A-U-S-T-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1eine Ballsportart, bei der zwei Mannschaften den Ball mit dem Unterarm oder der Faust über ein Band schlagen müssen
- 2der in dieser Sportart verwendete Lederball
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Faustball appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Im Gegensatz zum Volleyball, wo die Spieler rotieren und nach jedem Aufschlagwechsel eine andere Position einnehmen, hat im Faustball jeder Spieler seine feste Position.“
„Der Faustball ist hohl, luftgefüllt und besteht aus Leder.“
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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