Funkwesen
[ˈfʊŋkˌveːzn̩]
The verdict
“Funkwesen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rundfunk, insbesondere die damit verbundenen Institutionen
Corpus desk
Index DE-funkwesen · Funkwesen · German
Funkwesen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | Funkwesen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfʊŋkˌveːzn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Funkwesen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Funkwesen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfʊŋkˌveːzn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rundfunk, insbesondere die damit verbundenen Institutionen".
Funkwesen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Funkwesen, spelled F-U-N-K-W-E-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Rundfunk, insbesondere die damit verbundenen Institutionen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Funkwesen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gerne hätten sich einzelne Postverwaltungen auf die rein verkehrsverwaltende Ordnung des Funkwesens zurückgezogen (Edgar Lersch in: Jahrbuch Medien und Geschichte 2004).
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.