Kaltfront
[ˈkaltˌfʁɔnt]
The verdict
“Kaltfront” is uncommon German (frequency #79,361 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,361
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vorderste Linie einer Zone kälterer Luft in einem Tiefdrucksystem
Corpus desk
Index DE-kaltfront · Kaltfront · German
Kaltfront · rank #79,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,361
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kalahari
Nearest frequency peer: Kalahari (-2 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 „Kaltfront“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kahla
Kahla
20,644 corpus weight
- Kalahari
Kalahari
20,642 corpus weight
- Kaltfront
Kaltfront
20,640 corpus weight
- Kamtschatka
Kamtschatka
20,638 corpus weight
- Kapitalismu…
Kapitalismuskritik
20,637 corpus weight
- Kapriolen
Kapriolen
20,636 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kaltfront“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaltfront |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaltˌfʁɔnt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kaltfront“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kaltfront is uncommon German at frequency #79,361 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkaltˌfʁɔnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vorderste Linie einer Zone kälterer Luft in einem Tiefdrucksystem".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kaltfront in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Kaltfront, spelled K-A-L-T-F-R-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1vorderste Linie einer Zone kälterer Luft in einem Tiefdrucksystem
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kaltfront appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Kaltfront ist eine Luftmassengrenze, der im Allgemeinen eine Abkühlung folgt.“
„Der Smog-Alarm konnte nach dem Durchzug einer Kaltfront inzwischen fast überall [in China] aufgehoben werden.“
Antonyms
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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