Luftpistole
[ˈlʊftpɪsˌtoːlə]
The verdict
“Luftpistole” is uncommon German (frequency #84,265 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,265
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Waffe, bei der die Projektile durch komprimierte Gase verschossen werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-luftpistole · Luftpistole · German
Luftpistole · rank #84,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,265
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Luftschläge
Nearest frequency peer: Luftschläge (+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 „Luftpistole“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- loro
loro
15,740 corpus weight
- Luftpistole
Luftpistole
15,736 corpus weight
- Luftschläge
Luftschläge
15,735 corpus weight
- Luftstreitk…
Luftstreitkräfte
15,734 corpus weight
- Lustlosigke…
Lustlosigkeit
15,733 corpus weight
- lutherisch
lutherisch
15,732 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Luftpistole“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luftpistole |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlʊftpɪsˌtoːlə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Luftpistole“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Luftpistole is uncommon German at frequency #84,265 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlʊftpɪsˌtoːlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Waffe, bei der die Projektile durch komprimierte Gase verschossen werden".
No misspelling variants are generated for Luftpistole in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Luftpistole, spelled L-U-F-T-P-I-S-T-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Waffe, bei der die Projektile durch komprimierte Gase verschossen werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Luftpistole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Luftpistole schießt 20 m weit.
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Antonyms
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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