Fehlpass
[ˈfeːlˌpas]
The verdict
“Fehlpass” is uncommon German (frequency #99,773 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,773
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Zuspielen eines Balles (oder eines anderen Spielgerätes), das den angezielten Mitspieler nicht erreicht
Corpus desk
Index DE-fehlpass · Fehlpass · German
Fehlpass · rank #99,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,773
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Ferieninsel
Nearest frequency peer: Ferieninsel (+2 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 „Fehlpass“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- faste
faste
233 corpus weight
- Favelas
Favelas
232 corpus weight
- Fehlpass
Fehlpass
228 corpus weight
- Ferieninsel
Ferieninsel
226 corpus weight
- Fernunterri…
Fernunterricht
224 corpus weight
- Fernverkehrs
Fernverkehrs
223 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Fehlpass“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fehlpass |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfeːlˌpas] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Fehlpass“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Fehlpass is uncommon German at frequency #99,773 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfeːlˌpas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Zuspielen eines Balles (oder eines anderen Spielgerätes), das den angezielten Mitspieler nicht erreicht".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Fehlpass in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Fehlpass, spelled F-E-H-L-P-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1das Zuspielen eines Balles (oder eines anderen Spielgerätes), das den angezielten Mitspieler nicht erreicht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fehlpass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit diesem ärgerlichen Fehlpass wurde eine weitere Chance vertan.
„So unterlief Yusuf Kabadayi ein Fehlpass in der Zentrale, Tabakovic setzte im Umschaltspiel Winkler in Szene.“
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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