Lichtstrahl
[ˈlɪçtˌʃtʁaːl]
The verdict
“Lichtstrahl” is uncommon German (frequency #52,244 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,244
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von einer Lichtquelle geradlinig ausgehendes Licht
Corpus desk
Index DE-lichtstrahl · Lichtstrahl · German
Lichtstrahl · rank #52,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,244
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH letze
Nearest frequency peer: letze (-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 „Lichtstrahl“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- legs
legs
47,760 corpus weight
- Lengerich
Lengerich
47,759 corpus weight
- letze
letze
47,758 corpus weight
- Lichtstrahl
Lichtstrahl
47,757 corpus weight
- lido
lido
47,756 corpus weight
- Liebhabern
Liebhabern
47,755 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Lichtstrahl“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lichtstrahl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɪçtˌʃtʁaːl] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Lichtstrahl“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Lichtstrahl is uncommon German at frequency #52,244 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlɪçtˌʃtʁaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "von einer Lichtquelle geradlinig ausgehendes Licht".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Lichtstrahl 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Lichtstrahl, spelled L-I-C-H-T-S-T-R-A-H-L.
Definition
- 1von einer Lichtquelle geradlinig ausgehendes Licht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lichtstrahl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Vertrautheit mit den Eigenschaften der Lichtstrahlen, die wir bei der heutigen Entwicklung der Technik haben, darf uns aber nicht verleiten, Erfahrungen an Lichtstrahlen für die wesentliche Grundlage der Geometrie zu halten.“
„Der Lichtstrahl des Scheinwerfers erfasste sie.“
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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