Flashback
[ˈflɛʃbɛk]
The verdict
“Flashback” is uncommon German (frequency #54,525 among 45,736 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,525
- frequency rank, German
- 45,736
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Wiedererleben von bereits erlebten Gefühlszuständen
Corpus desk
Index DE-flashback · Flashback · German
Flashback · rank #54,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,525
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,736
- PHOTO-FINISH Firmengelände
Nearest frequency peer: Firmengelände (-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 “Flashback”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Finland
Finland
45,479 corpus weight
- Firmenchef
Firmenchef
45,478 corpus weight
- Firmengelän…
Firmengelände
45,477 corpus weight
- Flashback
Flashback
45,476 corpus weight
- flussaufwär…
flussaufwärts
45,475 corpus weight
- Folgejahr
Folgejahr
45,474 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Flashback” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Flashback |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈflɛʃbɛk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Flashback” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Flashback is uncommon German at frequency #54,525 among 45,736 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈflɛʃbɛk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Flashback, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Flashback, spelled F-L-A-S-H-B-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Wiedererleben von bereits erlebten Gefühlszuständen
- 2Erzähltechnik, bei der Geschehnisse gezeigt werden, die zeitlich vor den bereits gezeigten liegen
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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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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.