fork
[fɔːk]
The verdict
“fork” is uncommon German (frequency #53,690 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,690
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utensil mit zwei oder mehreren Zinken, das in der Küche oder beim Essen zum Halten und Befördern fester Nahrungsteile benutzt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-fork · fork · German
fork · rank #53,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,690
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Flörsheim
Nearest frequency peer: Flörsheim (-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 „fork“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fluchtwege
Fluchtwege
46,314 corpus weight
- Flörsheim
Flörsheim
46,312 corpus weight
- fork
fork
46,311 corpus weight
- formatiert
formatiert
46,310 corpus weight
- forschenden
forschenden
46,309 corpus weight
- Forscherin
Forscherin
46,308 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „fork“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fork |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɔːk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „fork“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
fork is uncommon German at frequency #53,690 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɔːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utensil mit zwei oder mehreren Zinken, das in der Küche oder beim Essen zum Halten und Befördern fester Nahrungsteile benutzt wird".
Zero misspellings are on record for fork in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 fork, spelled F-O-R-K.
Definition
- 1Utensil mit zwei oder mehreren Zinken, das in der Küche oder beim Essen zum Halten und Befördern fester Nahrungsteile benutzt wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fork appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Those forks look pretty expensive, don't they?
“Pick up your spoon and put your fork (with the pasta on it) on your spoon and twirl the fork around until all of the pasta surrounds the fork.”
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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