Luftfilter
[ˈlʊftˌfɪltɐ]
The verdict
“Luftfilter” is uncommon German (frequency #89,245 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,245
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filter, der unerwünschte Bestandteile aus der ihn durchströmenden Luft entfernt/zurückhält
Corpus desk
Index DE-luftfilter · Luftfilter · German
Luftfilter · rank #89,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,245
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lor
Nearest frequency peer: lor (-3 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 „Luftfilter“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- loci
loci
10,761 corpus weight
- logistischer
logistischer
10,760 corpus weight
- lor
lor
10,759 corpus weight
- Luftfilter
Luftfilter
10,756 corpus weight
- Lungenerkra…
Lungenerkrankungen
10,753 corpus weight
- Lwiw
Lwiw
10,751 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Luftfilter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luftfilter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlʊftˌfɪltɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Luftfilter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Luftfilter is uncommon German at frequency #89,245 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlʊftˌfɪltɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Filter, der unerwünschte Bestandteile aus der ihn durchströmenden Luft entfernt/zurückhält".
Zero misspellings are on record for Luftfilter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Luftfilter, spelled L-U-F-T-F-I-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Filter, der unerwünschte Bestandteile aus der ihn durchströmenden Luft entfernt/zurückhält
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Luftfilter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alle Luftfilter in Lüftungsanlagen müssen regelmäßig gewechselt werden. Die Luftfilterüberwachung zeigt die Verschmutzung des Luftfilters an.
„Grundsätzlich sind Luftfilter der Differenzdrucküberwachung unterworfen.“
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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