Halogen
[ˌhaloˈɡeːn]
The verdict
“Halogen” is uncommon German (frequency #57,071 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,071
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chemisches Element der 7. Hauptgruppe des Periodensystems
Corpus desk
Index DE-halogen · Halogen · German
Halogen · rank #57,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,071
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Haldensleben
Nearest frequency peer: Haldensleben (-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 „Halogen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gütiger
gütiger
42,934 corpus weight
- Haldensleben
Haldensleben
42,931 corpus weight
- Halogen
Halogen
42,930 corpus weight
- haltbare
haltbare
42,928 corpus weight
- Handbewegung
Handbewegung
42,927 corpus weight
- Handelskamm…
Handelskammern
42,926 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Halogen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Halogen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌhaloˈɡeːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Halogen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Halogen is uncommon German at frequency #57,071 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌhaloˈɡeːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "chemisches Element der 7. Hauptgruppe des Periodensystems".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Halogen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Halogen, spelled H-A-L-O-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1chemisches Element der 7. Hauptgruppe des Periodensystems
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Halogen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Halogene kommen in der Natur vor allem in Form von Natriumsalzen vor.
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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