Luftröhre
[ˈlʊftˌʁøːʁə]
The verdict
“Luftröhre” is uncommon German (frequency #55,523 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,523
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teil der Atemwege; Zubringer der Atemluft zu den Bronchien
Corpus desk
Index DE-luftrohre · Luftröhre · German
Luftröhre · rank #55,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,523
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH loyale
Nearest frequency peer: loyale (-2 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 „Luftröhre“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- liquidiert
liquidiert
44,484 corpus weight
- livre
livre
44,483 corpus weight
- lobten
lobten
44,482 corpus weight
- logistisch
logistisch
44,481 corpus weight
- loyale
loyale
44,480 corpus weight
- Luftröhre
Luftröhre
44,478 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Luftröhre“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luftröhre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlʊftˌʁøːʁə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Luftröhre“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Luftröhre is uncommon German at frequency #55,523 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlʊftˌʁøːʁə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Teil der Atemwege; Zubringer der Atemluft zu den Bronchien".
Luftröhre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Luftröhre, spelled L-U-F-T-R-Ö-H-R-E.
Definition
- 1Teil der Atemwege; Zubringer der Atemluft zu den Bronchien
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Luftröhre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie lachte beim Trinken, so dass etwas Wein in die Luftröhre gelangte.
„Die Beschreibung von Stimmritze, Nase mit Velum, Mund, Zunge, Zähnen und Lippen als Artikulatoren und von Lunge, Luftröhre und Larynx mit Glottis als zur Stimmerzeugung notwendigen Werkzeugen entspricht im Wesentlichen der auch heute noch in der artikulatorischen Phonetik benutzten Klassifikation.“
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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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