Fehlschluss
[ˈfeːlˌʃlʊs]
The verdict
“Fehlschluss” is uncommon German (frequency #75,624 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,624
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - falscher Schluss, falsch gefolgerte Aussage
Corpus desk
Index DE-fehlschluss · Fehlschluss · German
Fehlschluss · rank #75,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,624
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH featuring
Nearest frequency peer: featuring (-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 „Fehlschluss“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Farmers
Farmers
24,380 corpus weight
- Fassungslos…
Fassungslosigkeit
24,379 corpus weight
- featuring
featuring
24,378 corpus weight
- Fehlschluss
Fehlschluss
24,377 corpus weight
- feiges
feiges
24,376 corpus weight
- Feldsalat
Feldsalat
24,375 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Fehlschluss“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fehlschluss |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfeːlˌʃlʊs] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Fehlschluss“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Fehlschluss is uncommon German at frequency #75,624 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfeːlˌʃlʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "falscher Schluss, falsch gefolgerte Aussage".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Fehlschluss, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Fehlschluss, spelled F-E-H-L-S-C-H-L-U-S-S.
Definition
- 1falscher Schluss, falsch gefolgerte Aussage
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fehlschluss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wegen der mangelnden Genauigkeit war ein Fehlschluss fast vorprogrammiert.
„Als erfahrender Leitungsrevisor durfte ihm ein solcher Fehlschluß nicht unterlaufen, da er aus der von ihm durchgeführten Nadelprobe bereits den Grad des Fäulnisprozesses erkennen mußte.“
Synonyms
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).