grauenvoll
[ˈɡʁaʊ̯ənˌfɔl]
The verdict
“grauenvoll” is uncommon German (frequency #52,129 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,129
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - entsetzlich, furchtbar
Corpus desk
Index DE-grauenvoll · grauenvoll · German
grauenvoll · rank #52,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,129
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gratulierte
Nearest frequency peer: gratulierte (-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 „grauenvoll“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Giftstoffe
Giftstoffe
47,877 corpus weight
- glutenfrei
glutenfrei
47,876 corpus weight
- gratulierte
gratulierte
47,873 corpus weight
- grauenvoll
grauenvoll
47,872 corpus weight
- Greece
Greece
47,870 corpus weight
- groot
groot
47,869 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „grauenvoll“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grauenvoll |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁaʊ̯ənˌfɔl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „grauenvoll“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
grauenvoll is uncommon German at frequency #52,129 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɡʁaʊ̯ənˌfɔl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "entsetzlich, furchtbar".
No generated misspelling entries exist for grauenvoll in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is grauenvoll, spelled G-R-A-U-E-N-V-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1entsetzlich, furchtbar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grauenvoll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Vorstellung war grauenvoll.
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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