konkav
[kɔŋˈkaːf]
The verdict
“konkav” is uncommon German (frequency #64,439 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,439
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nach innen gewölbt, vom Betrachter aus gesehen von ihm weg gewölbt
Corpus desk
Index DE-konkav · konkav · German
konkav · rank #64,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,439
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Konjunktion
Nearest frequency peer: Konjunktion (-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 „konkav“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- konfessione…
konfessionell
35,565 corpus weight
- konfus
konfus
35,564 corpus weight
- Konjunktion
Konjunktion
35,563 corpus weight
- konkav
konkav
35,562 corpus weight
- Konsuln
Konsuln
35,561 corpus weight
- kontinuierl…
kontinuierliches
35,560 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „konkav“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | konkav |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kɔŋˈkaːf] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „konkav“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
konkav is uncommon German at frequency #64,439 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kɔŋˈkaːf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nach innen gewölbt, vom Betrachter aus gesehen von ihm weg gewölbt".
konkav doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is konkav, spelled K-O-N-K-A-V.
Definition
- 1nach innen gewölbt, vom Betrachter aus gesehen von ihm weg gewölbt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how konkav appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn man die Medaillen mit den Händen erforscht, entdeckt man, dass sie konkav und komplex sind, weil sie eine universelle Botschaft transportieren.“
Es gibt eine Vielzahl von verschiedenen Linsen. Die wichtigste Unterscheidung ist die zwischen Sammellinsen (konvexen Linsen) und Zerstreuungslinsen (konkaven Linsen), …
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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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