Mundwerk
[ˈmʊntˌvɛʁk]
The verdict
“Mundwerk” is uncommon German (frequency #59,020 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,020
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fähigkeit, viel – und dadurch andere bedrängend – zu reden
Corpus desk
Index DE-mundwerk · Mundwerk · German
Mundwerk · rank #59,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,020
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mundschutz
Nearest frequency peer: Mundschutz (-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 „Mundwerk“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Motherboard
Motherboard
40,984 corpus weight
- Mundschutz
Mundschutz
40,982 corpus weight
- Mundwerk
Mundwerk
40,981 corpus weight
- Musikrichtu…
Musikrichtungen
40,979 corpus weight
- Musikvereins
Musikvereins
40,978 corpus weight
- mystischer
mystischer
40,977 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Mundwerk“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mundwerk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmʊntˌvɛʁk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Mundwerk“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Mundwerk is uncommon German at frequency #59,020 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmʊntˌvɛʁk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fähigkeit, viel – und dadurch andere bedrängend – zu reden".
Mundwerk has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Mundwerk, spelled M-U-N-D-W-E-R-K.
Definition
- 1Fähigkeit, viel – und dadurch andere bedrängend – zu reden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mundwerk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Als der älteste Sohn, Ludewig, der jetzige Schimmelbergsbauer, der seinem Vater in allem ähnelte, heranwuchs, versuchte er es, dem Treiben im Hause zu steuern, kam aber gegen das Mundwerk seiner Mutter nicht an.“
„Ich, der ich nur der Humanität dienen wollte, wurde dafür auch noch von dem frühreifen Mundwerk eines ganz gewöhnlichen Studenten beleidigt!“
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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