fermentation

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The verdict

“fermentation” is uncommon German (frequency #79,150 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,150
frequency rank, German
3,474
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Gärung

Corpus desk

Index DE-fermentation · fermentation · German

fermentation · rank #79,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,150
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,474
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ferienort

Nearest frequency peer: Ferienort (-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 „fermentation“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „fermentation“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fermentation
PropertyValue
Headwordfermentation
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters12
Frequency rank#79,150
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „fermentation“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.fermentationfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Ferienort“ (#79,149), „festgelegter“ (#79,151), „Fentanyl“ (#79,148). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „fermentation“ bei #79,150. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fermentation is uncommon German at frequency #79,150 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

fermentation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 fermentation, spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Gärung
  2. 2
    übertragen die Erregung, die Unruhe

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fermentation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "A juice is obtained from the pineapple, which by fermentation yields a liquor possessing stimulating and diuretick properties."

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fermentation"?
"fermentation" is spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "fermentation" mean?
As a noun, "fermentation" means: die Gärung
How do you pronounce "fermentation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fermentation" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fermentation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

festgelegter#79,151Filterkaffee#79,155Fahnenflucht#79,134Frühlingstag#79,171

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list