Fernsprechgerät
[ˈfɛʁnʃpʁɛçɡəˌʁɛːt]
The verdict
“Fernsprechgerät” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerät zur Übermittlung von Sprache in die Ferne (mittels elektrischer Signale)
Corpus desk
Index DE-fernsprechgerat · Fernsprechgerät · German
Fernsprechgerät · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fernsprechgerät |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛʁnʃpʁɛçɡəˌʁɛːt] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Fernsprechgerät“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Fernsprechgerät is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɛʁnʃpʁɛçɡəˌʁɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gerät zur Übermittlung von Sprache in die Ferne (mittels elektrischer Signale)".
Zero misspellings are on record for Fernsprechgerät in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Fernsprechgerät, spelled F-E-R-N-S-P-R-E-C-H-G-E-R-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1Gerät zur Übermittlung von Sprache in die Ferne (mittels elektrischer Signale)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fernsprechgerät appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Doch er erkannte, dass die Ära der Postbeamten, bei denen man noch Fernsprechgeräte beantragen musste, ihrem Ende entgegenging.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.