Glanzstück

[ˈɡlant͡sˌʃtʏk]

/[ˈɡlant͡sˌʃtʏk]/ noun

The verdict

“Glanzstück” is uncommon German (frequency #90,337 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,337
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine besondere Leistung, ein besonders gelungenes Exemplar (Stück)

Corpus desk

Index DE-glanzstuck · Glanzstück · German

Glanzstück · rank #90,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,337
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH glamourösen

Nearest frequency peer: glamourösen (-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 „Glanzstück“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Glanzstück
PropertyValue
HeadwordGlanzstück
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈɡlant͡sˌʃtʏk]
Letters10
Frequency rank#90,337
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Glanzstück“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Glanzstückfällt 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: „glamourösen“ (#90,336), „Glasfasern“ (#90,338), „Gitarristin“ (#90,335). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „Glanzstück“ bei #90,337. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Glanzstück is uncommon German at frequency #90,337 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡlant͡sˌʃtʏk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine besondere Leistung, ein besonders gelungenes Exemplar (Stück)".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Glanzstück, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Glanzstück, spelled G-L-A-N-Z-S-T-Ü-C-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine besondere Leistung, ein besonders gelungenes Exemplar (Stück)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Die Glanzstücke der Ausstellung sind Miniaturen aus dem 17. Jahrhundert.
  2. „Der erste Auftritt Immels auf der Bühne des Vordergrundes im Roman war als ein Glanzstück naturalistischer Darstellung bezeichnet worden.“

Synonyms

Antonyms

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 "Glanzstück"?
"Glanzstück" is spelled G-L-A-N-Z-S-T-Ü-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡlant͡sˌʃtʏk].
What does "Glanzstück" mean?
As a noun, "Glanzstück" means: eine besondere Leistung, ein besonders gelungenes Exemplar (Stück)
How do you pronounce "Glanzstück"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Glanzstück" is [ˈɡlant͡sˌʃtʏk]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Glanzstück" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list