Levitation
[levitaˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Levitation” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schweben eines Objektes oder einer Person, frei von Schwerkraft
Corpus desk
Index DE-levitation · Levitation · German
Levitation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | Levitation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [levitaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Levitation“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Levitation is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [levitaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Levitation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Levitation, spelled L-E-V-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Schweben eines Objektes oder einer Person, frei von Schwerkraft
- 2Schweben von Objekten mittels technischer Verfahren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Levitation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Von Levitation ist gelegentlich in religiösen oder spiritistischen Zusammenhängen die Rede.
„Der Orden der Kopertiner, erklärte er, habe seinen Namen vom heiligen Joseph von Copertino, einem recht eigenwilligen frommen Mann, der im siebzehnten Jahrhundert lebte und erstaunliche Leistungen der Levitation hervorbrachte, und zwar etwa zur gleichen Zeit, als Isaac Newton die Gesetze der universalen Schwerkraft formulierte.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.