Glöckner
[ˈɡlœknɐ]
The verdict
“Glöckner” is uncommon German (frequency #50,520 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,520
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, deren Aufgabe es ist, ein in oder an Kirchen aufgehängtes Läuteinstrument durch Bewegen zum Klingen zu bringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-glockner · Glöckner · German
Glöckner · rank #50,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,520
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH glückte
Nearest frequency peer: glückte (+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 „Glöckner“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gleichbleib…
gleichbleibend
49,483 corpus weight
- Glöckner
Glöckner
49,481 corpus weight
- glückte
glückte
49,480 corpus weight
- goldrichtig
goldrichtig
49,479 corpus weight
- googelt
googelt
49,478 corpus weight
- gottlosen
gottlosen
49,477 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Glöckner“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Glöckner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡlœknɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Glöckner“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Glöckner is uncommon German at frequency #50,520 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡlœknɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, deren Aufgabe es ist, ein in oder an Kirchen aufgehängtes Läuteinstrument durch Bewegen zum Klingen zu bringen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Glöckner, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Glöckner, spelled G-L-Ö-C-K-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, deren Aufgabe es ist, ein in oder an Kirchen aufgehängtes Läuteinstrument durch Bewegen zum Klingen zu bringen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Glöckner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Beruf des Glöckners ist heute so gut wie ausgestorben.
„Die Menschen, die ich mit meiner Großmutter aufsuchte, wie die Melkotsleute und Bjarni, der Glöckner, hatten keine Kinder, und meine Großmutter hatte alle ihre Kinder verloren.“
This word in other languages
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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