fountain

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The verdict

“fountain” is uncommon German (frequency #86,480 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,480
frequency rank, German
3,474
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wasserquelle, Quelle

Corpus desk

Index DE-fountain · fountain · German

fountain · rank #86,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,480
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,474
  • PHOTO-FINISH franchises

Nearest frequency peer: franchises (+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 „fountain“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „fountain“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fountain
PropertyValue
Headwordfountain
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#86,480
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „fountain“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).fountainfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „franchises“ (#86,481), „fortsetzten“ (#86,478), „Forschungsstation“ (#86,477). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „fountain“ bei #86,480. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fountain is uncommon German at frequency #86,480 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

fountain doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is fountain, spelled F-O-U-N-T-A-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Wasserquelle, Quelle
  2. 2
    Quelle, Ursprung
  3. 3
    Brunnen
  4. 4
    Springbrunnen
  5. 5
    Fontäne

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fountain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A fountain is a personal note in your garden.

This word in other languages

fontaine(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fountain"?
"fountain" is spelled F-O-U-N-T-A-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "fountain" mean?
As a noun, "fountain" means: Wasserquelle, Quelle
How do you pronounce "fountain"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fountain" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fountain", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

galleria#86,502Gastraum#86,506Fallbeil#86,452extremem#86,447

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list