Luftkrieg
[ˈlʊftˌkʁiːk]
The verdict
“Luftkrieg” is uncommon German (frequency #94,578 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,578
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kampfhandlung, die von Luftstreitkräften ausgeht
Corpus desk
Index DE-luftkrieg · Luftkrieg · German
Luftkrieg · rank #94,578 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,578
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lude
Nearest frequency peer: Lude (-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 „Luftkrieg“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- loup
loup
5,426 corpus weight
- Lude
Lude
5,424 corpus weight
- Luftkrieg
Luftkrieg
5,423 corpus weight
- Luftreinhal…
Luftreinhaltung
5,422 corpus weight
- lumière
lumière
5,420 corpus weight
- Luxuswohnun…
Luxuswohnungen
5,418 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Luftkrieg“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luftkrieg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlʊftˌkʁiːk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Luftkrieg“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Luftkrieg is uncommon German at frequency #94,578 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlʊftˌkʁiːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kampfhandlung, die von Luftstreitkräften ausgeht".
Luftkrieg has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Luftkrieg, spelled L-U-F-T-K-R-I-E-G.
Definition
- 1Kampfhandlung, die von Luftstreitkräften ausgeht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Luftkrieg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Selbst wenn der Luftkrieg gegen das Gaddafi-Regime am Ende vom Erfolg gekrönt sein sollte, was nicht unwahrscheinlich ist, so entblößt er doch schon jetzt die Schwachstellen des westlichen Bündnisses.“
„Heute weiß Gudrun Baumann, dass das Nichthinsehen, das ihr offenbar während des Luftkriegs antrainiert worden war, zu einem Charakterzug wurde, gegen den sie dann ihr Leben lang ankämpfte.“
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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