Kamellen
[kaˈmɛlən]
The verdict
“Kamellen” is uncommon German (frequency #90,496 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,496
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in der Redensart olle/alte Kamellen: etwas längst Bekanntes
Corpus desk
Index DE-kamellen · Kamellen · German
Kamellen · rank #90,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,496
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kama
Nearest frequency peer: kama (-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 „Kamellen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- kalibrieren
kalibrieren
9,508 corpus weight
- Kalligrafie
Kalligrafie
9,507 corpus weight
- kama
kama
9,506 corpus weight
- Kamellen
Kamellen
9,505 corpus weight
- Karibikinsel
Karibikinsel
9,504 corpus weight
- kartiert
kartiert
9,503 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kamellen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kamellen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈmɛlən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kamellen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kamellen is uncommon German at frequency #90,496 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈmɛlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in der Redensart olle/alte Kamellen: etwas längst Bekanntes".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kamellen, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Kamellen, spelled K-A-M-E-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1in der Redensart olle/alte Kamellen: etwas längst Bekanntes
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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