Kabelfernsehen
[ˈkaːbl̩ˌfɛʁnzeːən]
The verdict
“Kabelfernsehen” is uncommon German (frequency #57,134 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,134
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Übertragung von Bild- und Tonsignale für das Fernsehprogramm über ein Koaxialkabel (Breitbandkabel)
Corpus desk
Index DE-kabelfernsehen · Kabelfernsehen · German
Kabelfernsehen · rank #57,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,134
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Jugoslawiens
Nearest frequency peer: Jugoslawiens (-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 „Kabelfernsehen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Jakobi
Jakobi
42,871 corpus weight
- Joule
Joule
42,869 corpus weight
- Jugoslawiens
Jugoslawiens
42,868 corpus weight
- Kabelfernse…
Kabelfernsehen
42,867 corpus weight
- Kaliforniens
Kaliforniens
42,865 corpus weight
- Kammerchor
Kammerchor
42,863 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kabelfernsehen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kabelfernsehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaːbl̩ˌfɛʁnzeːən] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #57,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kabelfernsehen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kabelfernsehen is uncommon German at frequency #57,134 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkaːbl̩ˌfɛʁnzeːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Kabelfernsehen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Kabelfernsehen, spelled K-A-B-E-L-F-E-R-N-S-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Übertragung von Bild- und Tonsignale für das Fernsehprogramm über ein Koaxialkabel (Breitbandkabel)
- 2Gesamtheit der Sender und Sendungen, die über ein Koaxialkabel übertragen werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kabelfernsehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Du hast Kabelfernsehen wegen des Wetterkanals.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).