Feuerball
[ˈfɔɪ̯ɐˌbal]
The verdict
“Feuerball” is uncommon German (frequency #51,307 among 45,736 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,307
- frequency rank, German
- 45,736
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - kugelförmiger Gegenstand aus glühendem oder brennendem Material
Corpus desk
Index DE-feuerball · Feuerball · German
Feuerball · rank #51,307 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,307
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,736
- PHOTO-FINISH Festtagen
Nearest frequency peer: Festtagen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Feuerball”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- festrede
festrede
48,696 corpus weight
- Festtagen
Festtagen
48,695 corpus weight
- Feuerball
Feuerball
48,694 corpus weight
- Feuerwehrmä…
Feuerwehrmänner
48,693 corpus weight
- Feuerwerksk…
Feuerwerkskörper
48,692 corpus weight
- figure
figure
48,691 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Feuerball” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Feuerball |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɔɪ̯ɐˌbal] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Feuerball” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Feuerball is uncommon German at frequency #51,307 among 45,736 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɔɪ̯ɐˌbal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Feuerball, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Feuerball, spelled F-E-U-E-R-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1kugelförmiger Gegenstand aus glühendem oder brennendem Material
- 2Zentrum einer Explosion, insbesondere bei Atombomben
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.