Idiom
[iˈdi̯oːm]
The verdict
“Idiom” is uncommon German (frequency #68,350 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,350
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eigentümliche Sprechweise einer Personengruppe
Corpus desk
Index DE-idiom · Idiom · German
Idiom · rank #68,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,350
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH idealistische
Nearest frequency peer: idealistische (-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 „Idiom“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hölzernes
hölzernes
31,656 corpus weight
- Hückelhoven
Hückelhoven
31,655 corpus weight
- hügelige
hügelige
31,654 corpus weight
- idealistisc…
idealistische
31,652 corpus weight
- Idiom
Idiom
31,651 corpus weight
- immenser
immenser
31,647 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Idiom“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Idiom |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [iˈdi̯oːm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Idiom“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Idiom is uncommon German at frequency #68,350 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [iˈdi̯oːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Idiom doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Idiom, spelled I-D-I-O-M.
Definition
- 1eigentümliche Sprechweise einer Personengruppe
- 2feste Redewendung, Wortverbindung, idiomatischer Ausdruck, festes Syntagma
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Idiom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn das Echo dann, wie in diesem Falle, verschämt deutsch klang, verstanden sich die zwanzig Gehröcke dazu, auch in diesem Idiom zu reden. (Hermann Harry Schmitz, Im Sanatorium, z.n. Projekt Gutenberg)
„Er fragte sich, ob die Beschränkten ein spezielles Idiom hatten, das man lernen konnte wie eine Fremdsprache.“
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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