Flegel
[ˈfleːɡl̩]
The verdict
“Flegel” is uncommon German (frequency #79,159 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,159
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - junger Mann, der sich schlecht oder unhöflich benimmt
Corpus desk
Index DE-flegel · Flegel · German
Flegel · rank #79,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,159
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH flirte
Nearest frequency peer: flirte (+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 „Flegel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fischbrötch…
Fischbrötchen
20,845 corpus weight
- Fischotter
Fischotter
20,844 corpus weight
- Flegel
Flegel
20,842 corpus weight
- flirte
flirte
20,841 corpus weight
- florale
florale
20,840 corpus weight
- Fluggast
Fluggast
20,839 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Flegel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Flegel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfleːɡl̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Flegel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Flegel is uncommon German at frequency #79,159 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfleːɡl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Flegel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Flegel, spelled F-L-E-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1junger Mann, der sich schlecht oder unhöflich benimmt
- 2bäuerliches Handgerät mit einem Stiel und einer Keule zum Trennen (Dreschen) der Getreidekörner vom Stroh
- 3Schlagwaffe, die im Mittelalter gebraucht wurde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Flegel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Benimm dich nicht wie ein Flegel.
„Der Flegel schlug einen herrischen Ton an und wollte wissen, was ich damit gemacht hätte; darauf gab ich ihm zur Antwort, ich hätte ihm keine Rechenschaft abzulegen.“
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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