Folterung
[ˈfɔltəʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Folterung” is uncommon German (frequency #94,272 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,272
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Durchführung/Erleiden der Folter
Corpus desk
Index DE-folterung · Folterung · German
Folterung · rank #94,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,272
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Flügelstürmer
Nearest frequency peer: Flügelstürmer (-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 „Folterung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Floristik
Floristik
5,733 corpus weight
- Flugschreib…
Flugschreiber
5,732 corpus weight
- Flügelstürm…
Flügelstürmer
5,730 corpus weight
- Folterung
Folterung
5,729 corpus weight
- formales
formales
5,727 corpus weight
- Formalien
Formalien
5,726 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Folterung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Folterung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɔltəʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Folterung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Folterung is uncommon German at frequency #94,272 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɔltəʁʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Durchführung/Erleiden der Folter".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Folterung in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Folterung, spelled F-O-L-T-E-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Durchführung/Erleiden der Folter
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Folterung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Manche trugen Fackeln, manche auch Instrumente, die mir völlig unbekannt waren und von denen ich annahm, daß sie wohl zur Folterung dienten.“
„Willige Mediziner richteten die Opfer soweit her, dass die Folterungen von Neuem beginnen konnten.“
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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