Fernsicht
[ˈfɛʁnˌzɪçt]
The verdict
“Fernsicht” is uncommon German (frequency #67,205 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,205
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - freier Blick auf große Entfernung
Corpus desk
Index DE-fernsicht · Fernsicht · German
Fernsicht · rank #67,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,205
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Felsberg
Nearest frequency peer: Felsberg (-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 „Fernsicht“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fanfaren
Fanfaren
32,800 corpus weight
- Farsi
Farsi
32,799 corpus weight
- feinstes
feinstes
32,798 corpus weight
- Felsberg
Felsberg
32,797 corpus weight
- Fernsicht
Fernsicht
32,796 corpus weight
- Ferraris
Ferraris
32,795 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Fernsicht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fernsicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛʁnˌzɪçt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Fernsicht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Fernsicht is uncommon German at frequency #67,205 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɛʁnˌzɪçt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Fernsicht, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Fernsicht, spelled F-E-R-N-S-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1freier Blick auf große Entfernung
- 2die Qualität, in der weit entfernte Gegenstände zu sehen sind
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fernsicht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Von diesem Standort aus hat man eine hervorragende Fernsicht in die Landschaft.
„Die weite Fernsicht, die sich von der Höhe erschloss, auf der die zum Schutz der Brücke bestimmten russischen Batterien standen, wurde plötzlich von dem durchsichtigen Schleier eines schräg fallenden Regens verhüllt, bald öffnete sie sich wieder dem Blick ebenso plötzlich, und man konnte im Sonnenschein selbst die fernsten Gegenstände glänzen sehen, als…
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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