Jarl
[jaʁl]
The verdict
“Jarl” is uncommon German (frequency #61,642 among 699 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,642
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adelstitel, dem Grafen entsprechend
Corpus desk
Index DE-jarl · Jarl · German
Jarl · rank #61,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,642
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH jardin
Nearest frequency peer: jardin (-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 „Jarl“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- jahrelanges
jahrelanges
38,362 corpus weight
- Jahwe
Jahwe
38,361 corpus weight
- jardin
jardin
38,360 corpus weight
- Jarl
Jarl
38,359 corpus weight
- Jaroslav
Jaroslav
38,358 corpus weight
- Jesuit
Jesuit
38,357 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Jarl“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jarl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [jaʁl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Jarl“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Jarl is uncommon German at frequency #61,642 among 699 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [jaʁl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Jarl in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Jarl, spelled J-A-R-L.
Definition
- 1Adelstitel, dem Grafen entsprechend
- 2Adeliger mit dem Titel eines Jarls
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jarl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Jarl ist mit dem deutschen Grafen vergleichbar.
„Doch die Jarle wussten, dass die Macht der norwegischen Kriegsflotte groß war, und sie hingen an ihrem Leben. Da warfen die Goden ihnen Feigheit vor, sodass offener Streit ausbrach und die Jarle und Großbauern den Odinspriestern gar mit dem Tode drohten.“
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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