Halbdunkel
[ˈhalpˌdʊŋkl̩]
The verdict
“Halbdunkel” is uncommon German (frequency #98,554 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,554
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zustand, bei dem es noch nicht vollständig dunkel ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-halbdunkel · Halbdunkel · German
Halbdunkel · rank #98,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,554
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH halbjährigen
Nearest frequency peer: halbjährigen (+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 „Halbdunkel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Haaresbreite
Haaresbreite
1,450 corpus weight
- haderte
haderte
1,449 corpus weight
- Halbdunkel
Halbdunkel
1,447 corpus weight
- halbjährigen
halbjährigen
1,446 corpus weight
- halbseitig
halbseitig
1,445 corpus weight
- Halsbänder
Halsbänder
1,444 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Halbdunkel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Halbdunkel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhalpˌdʊŋkl̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Halbdunkel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Halbdunkel is uncommon German at frequency #98,554 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhalpˌdʊŋkl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zustand, bei dem es noch nicht vollständig dunkel ist".
Halbdunkel has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Halbdunkel, spelled H-A-L-B-D-U-N-K-E-L.
Definition
- 1Zustand, bei dem es noch nicht vollständig dunkel ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Halbdunkel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er tapste im Halbdunkel die Kellertreppe hinab.
„Die Treppe kann man im Halbdunkeln schwer erkennen.“
Synonyms
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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