Flugkapitän
[ˈfluːkkapiˌtɛːn]
The verdict
“Flugkapitän” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - derjenige Pilot, der auf einem Flug die Entscheidungsvollmacht hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-flugkapitan · Flugkapitän · German
Flugkapitän · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Flugkapitän |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfluːkkapiˌtɛːn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Flugkapitän“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Flugkapitän is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfluːkkapiˌtɛːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "derjenige Pilot, der auf einem Flug die Entscheidungsvollmacht hat".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Flugkapitän, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Flugkapitän, spelled F-L-U-G-K-A-P-I-T-Ä-N.
Definition
- 1derjenige Pilot, der auf einem Flug die Entscheidungsvollmacht hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Flugkapitän appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Erst als der Flugkapitän ins Mikrophon sprach und erklärte, sie hätten gerade die deutsch-französische Grenze überflogen, wurde ihr mulmig und fast ein wenig unheimlich zumute.“
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.