Luftzug
[ˈlʊftˌt͡suːk]
The verdict
“Luftzug” is uncommon German (frequency #66,457 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,457
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zufuhr von Frischluft (häufig in einen Raum, beispielsweise durch ein Fenster oder eine Tür)
Corpus desk
Index DE-luftzug · Luftzug · German
Luftzug · rank #66,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,457
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lublin
Nearest frequency peer: Lublin (-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 „Luftzug“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Lublin
Lublin
33,545 corpus weight
- Luftzug
Luftzug
33,544 corpus weight
- Lustgarten
Lustgarten
33,543 corpus weight
- lüg
lüg
33,542 corpus weight
- Macao
Macao
33,541 corpus weight
- Mahnwachen
Mahnwachen
33,540 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Luftzug“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Luftzug |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlʊftˌt͡suːk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Luftzug“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Luftzug is uncommon German at frequency #66,457 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlʊftˌt͡suːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zufuhr von Frischluft (häufig in einen Raum, beispielsweise durch ein Fenster oder eine Tür)".
No misspelling variants are generated for Luftzug in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Luftzug, spelled L-U-F-T-Z-U-G.
Definition
- 1Zufuhr von Frischluft (häufig in einen Raum, beispielsweise durch ein Fenster oder eine Tür)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Luftzug appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In den Stationen der Moskauer Metro herrscht ein ständiger Luftzug.
Mit einer brennenden Kerze lässt sich im Winter ein Luftzug an undichten Fenstern oder Türen aufspüren.
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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