flac
[fɫak]
The verdict
“flac” is uncommon German (frequency #73,490 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,490
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mager, hager, schlaff, schwach
Corpus desk
Index DE-flac · flac · German
flac · rank #73,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,490
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH flauschige
Nearest frequency peer: flauschige (+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 „flac“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Finanzinsti…
Finanzinstitute
26,515 corpus weight
- Firewalls
Firewalls
26,514 corpus weight
- Firmenlogo
Firmenlogo
26,513 corpus weight
- flac
flac
26,511 corpus weight
- flauschige
flauschige
26,510 corpus weight
- Flickentepp…
Flickenteppich
26,508 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „flac“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flac |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [fɫak] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „flac“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
flac is uncommon German at frequency #73,490 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [fɫak]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mager, hager, schlaff, schwach".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for flac, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 flac, spelled F-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1mager, hager, schlaff, schwach
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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