Lenkflugkörper
[ˈlɛŋkfluːkˌkœʁpɐ]
The verdict
“Lenkflugkörper” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Waffe mit eigenem Antrieb, die im Flug die Richtung ändern kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-lenkflugkorper · Lenkflugkörper · German
Lenkflugkörper · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lenkflugkörper |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɛŋkfluːkˌkœʁpɐ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Lenkflugkörper“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Lenkflugkörper is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlɛŋkfluːkˌkœʁpɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Waffe mit eigenem Antrieb, die im Flug die Richtung ändern kann".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lenkflugkörper in our 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Lenkflugkörper, spelled L-E-N-K-F-L-U-G-K-Ö-R-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Waffe mit eigenem Antrieb, die im Flug die Richtung ändern kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lenkflugkörper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„US-Verteidigungsminister Lloyd Austin ordnet die Entsendung eines U-Boots mit Lenkflugkörpern an, wie das Pentagon mitteilt.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.