Frontalunterricht

[fʁɔnˈtaːlˌʔʊntɐʁɪçt]

/[fʁɔnˈtaːlˌʔʊntɐʁɪçt]/ noun

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The verdict

“Frontalunterricht” is uncommon German (frequency #90,279 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,279
frequency rank, German
3,474
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fragend-entwickelnder Unterricht, bei dem der Lehrer vor der Klasse steht

Corpus desk

Index DE-frontalunterricht · Frontalunterricht · German

Frontalunterricht · rank #90,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,279
  • LEN-MEGA 17 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,474
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fristverlänge…

Nearest frequency peer: Fristverlängerung (-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 „Frontalunterricht“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Frontalunterricht
PropertyValue
HeadwordFrontalunterricht
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[fʁɔnˈtaːlˌʔʊntɐʁɪçt]
Letters17
Frequency rank#90,279
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Frontalunterricht“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Frontalunterrichtfällt 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: „Fristverlängerung“ (#90,278), „frontera“ (#90,280), „Friedhofskapelle“ (#90,277). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „Frontalunterricht“ bei #90,279. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Frontalunterricht is uncommon German at frequency #90,279 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fʁɔnˈtaːlˌʔʊntɐʁɪçt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fragend-entwickelnder Unterricht, bei dem der Lehrer vor der Klasse steht".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Frontalunterricht, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Frontalunterricht, spelled F-R-O-N-T-A-L-U-N-T-E-R-R-I-C-H-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    fragend-entwickelnder Unterricht, bei dem der Lehrer vor der Klasse steht

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Der Frontalunterricht weicht immer mehr dem offenen Unterricht.
  2. „Unterrichtet worden sei zudem vornehmlich im Stile des Frontalunterrichts.“

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 "Frontalunterricht"?
"Frontalunterricht" is spelled F-R-O-N-T-A-L-U-N-T-E-R-R-I-C-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is [fʁɔnˈtaːlˌʔʊntɐʁɪçt].
What does "Frontalunterricht" mean?
As a noun, "Frontalunterricht" means: fragend-entwickelnder Unterricht, bei dem der Lehrer vor der Klasse steht
How do you pronounce "Frontalunterricht"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Frontalunterricht" is [fʁɔnˈtaːlˌʔʊntɐʁɪçt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Frontalunterricht" come from?
"Frontalunterricht" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 17 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Fristverlängerung#90,278Freiheitsbewegung#90,272fortgeschrittenem#90,264Generalinspekteur#90,312

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list