Machwerk
[ˈmaxˌvɛʁk]
The verdict
“Machwerk” is uncommon German (frequency #59,860 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,860
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abwertend für einen Text, einen Film oder ein Kunstwerk, die damit als missraten charakterisiert werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-machwerk · Machwerk · German
Machwerk · rank #59,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,860
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH machbare
Nearest frequency peer: machbare (-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 „Machwerk“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- lähmen
lähmen
40,144 corpus weight
- machbare
machbare
40,142 corpus weight
- Machwerk
Machwerk
40,141 corpus weight
- madre
madre
40,139 corpus weight
- Mafiosi
Mafiosi
40,138 corpus weight
- Mahagoni
Mahagoni
40,137 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Machwerk“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Machwerk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaxˌvɛʁk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Machwerk“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Machwerk is uncommon German at frequency #59,860 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmaxˌvɛʁk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Machwerk 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Machwerk, spelled M-A-C-H-W-E-R-K.
Definition
- 1abwertend für einen Text, einen Film oder ein Kunstwerk, die damit als missraten charakterisiert werden
- 2nicht wertend, veraltend: etwas Erzeugtes, Geschaffenes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Machwerk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Und so ein Machwerk wird auch noch zum Bestseller!
„Wer an den Machwerken zweifelte, wie zum Beispiel der tschechische Slawist Josef Dobrovský, lief Gefahr, des Verrats bezichtigt zu werden.“
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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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