medal
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The verdict
“medal” is uncommon German (frequency #68,457 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,457
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Medaille, Ehrenabzeichnen, Orden
Corpus desk
Index DE-medal · medal · German
medal · rank #68,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,457
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH medienwirksam
Nearest frequency peer: medienwirksam (+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 „medal“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Massensterb…
Massensterben
31,546 corpus weight
- medal
medal
31,544 corpus weight
- medienwirks…
medienwirksam
31,543 corpus weight
- mehrmaligem
mehrmaligem
31,541 corpus weight
- Meisen
Meisen
31,539 corpus weight
- Melilla
Melilla
31,538 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „medal“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „medal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
medal is uncommon German at frequency #68,457 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
medal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is medal, spelled M-E-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Medaille, Ehrenabzeichnen, Orden
- 2Gedenkmünze, Schaumünze
Synonyms
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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