Festspiel
[ˈfɛstˌʃpiːl]
The verdict
“Festspiel” is uncommon German (frequency #71,329 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,329
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - glanzvolle Veranstaltung von kulturellem Rang
Corpus desk
Index DE-festspiel · Festspiel · German
Festspiel · rank #71,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,329
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH feststellten
Nearest frequency peer: feststellten (+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 „Festspiel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fernlicht
Fernlicht
28,675 corpus weight
- fertigmachen
fertigmachen
28,674 corpus weight
- Festspiel
Festspiel
28,672 corpus weight
- feststellten
feststellten
28,671 corpus weight
- Feuergefecht
Feuergefecht
28,670 corpus weight
- Finken
Finken
28,668 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Festspiel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Festspiel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌʃpiːl] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Festspiel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Festspiel is uncommon German at frequency #71,329 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɛstˌʃpiːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Festspiel, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Festspiel, spelled F-E-S-T-S-P-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1glanzvolle Veranstaltung von kulturellem Rang
- 2Reihe von Veranstaltungen von kulturellem Rang an einem bestimmten Ort, zu einem bestimmten Thema oder eines bestimmten Genres
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Festspiel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Liebesspiel trägt seinen Namen gewiß mit Recht, und auch die Kult- und Festspiele, die in urtümlichen Sozialformen in großer Mannigfaltigkeit anzutreffen sind, […] haben durchaus ausgesprochenen Spielcharakter.“
Stichwort Festspiel
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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