Internierungslager

[ɪntɐˈniːʁʊŋsˌlaːɡɐ]

/[ɪntɐˈniːʁʊŋsˌlaːɡɐ]/ noun

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The verdict

“Internierungslager” is uncommon German (frequency #66,356 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,356
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lager, in das Gefangene des Militärs interniert werden

Corpus desk

Index DE-internierungslager · Internierungslager · German

Internierungslager · rank #66,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,356
  • LEN-MEGA 18 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH Interpunktion

Nearest frequency peer: Interpunktion (+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 „Internierungslager“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Internierungslager“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Internierungslager
PropertyValue
HeadwordInternierungslager
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɪntɐˈniːʁʊŋsˌlaːɡɐ]
Letters18
Frequency rank#66,356
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Internierungslager“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Internierungslagerfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Interpunktion“ (#66,357), „Insolvenzantrag“ (#66,354), „intuitiven“ (#66,358). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „Internierungslager“ bei #66,356. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Internierungslager is uncommon German at frequency #66,356 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɪntɐˈniːʁʊŋsˌlaːɡɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lager, in das Gefangene des Militärs interniert werden".

Internierungslager doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Internierungslager, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-I-E-R-U-N-G-S-L-A-G-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lager, in das Gefangene des Militärs interniert werden

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Internierungslager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Viele Nazis wurden nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg in Internierungslagern gefangen gehalten.
  2. „Penibel ausgearbeitete Pläne für Internierungslager und Listen mit Namen der zur Internierung vorgesehenen Systemkritiker lagen tatsächlich längst vor.“

Synonyms

Konzentrationslager

This word in other languages

internment camp(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Internierungslager"?
"Internierungslager" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-I-E-R-U-N-G-S-L-A-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪntɐˈniːʁʊŋsˌlaːɡɐ].
What does "Internierungslager" mean?
As a noun, "Internierungslager" means: Lager, in das Gefangene des Militärs interniert werden
How do you pronounce "Internierungslager"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Internierungslager" is [ɪntɐˈniːʁʊŋsˌlaːɡɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Internierungslager" come from?
"Internierungslager" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Internierungslager", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 18 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list