Joystick
[ˈd͡ʒɔɪ̯stɪk]
The verdict
“Joystick” is uncommon German (frequency #70,428 among 699 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,428
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Name eines Eingabegerätes für Spiele in Form eines Hebels und meist mehrerer Knöpfe
Corpus desk
Index DE-joystick · Joystick · German
Joystick · rank #70,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,428
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH jetziges
Nearest frequency peer: jetziges (-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 „Joystick“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Jeremia
Jeremia
29,576 corpus weight
- Jesses
Jesses
29,575 corpus weight
- jetziges
jetziges
29,574 corpus weight
- Joystick
Joystick
29,573 corpus weight
- Jugendstrafe
Jugendstrafe
29,571 corpus weight
- Juist
Juist
29,570 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Joystick“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Joystick |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd͡ʒɔɪ̯stɪk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Joystick“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Joystick is uncommon German at frequency #70,428 among 699 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈd͡ʒɔɪ̯stɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Name eines Eingabegerätes für Spiele in Form eines Hebels und meist mehrerer Knöpfe".
Joystick 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Joystick, spelled J-O-Y-S-T-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Name eines Eingabegerätes für Spiele in Form eines Hebels und meist mehrerer Knöpfe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Joystick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heutzutage werden kaum noch Joysticks benutzt.
„Bedient wird der Boxmover über eine Funkfernsteuerung, wobei man angesichts konventioneller Kransteuerungen mit mehreren Joysticks erst Erfahrungen sammeln musste.“
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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