Notrufnummer
[ˈnoːtʁuːfˌnʊmɐ]
The verdict
“Notrufnummer” is uncommon German (frequency #71,665 among 26,919 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,665
- frequency rank, German
- 26,919
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Telefonnummer, über die man jemanden/eine Institution erreichen kann, die im Notfall weiterhilft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Notrufnummer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnoːtʁuːfˌnʊmɐ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #71,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Notrufnummer” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Notrufnummer is uncommon German at frequency #71,665 among 26,919 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnoːtʁuːfˌnʊmɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Telefonnummer, über die man jemanden/eine Institution erreichen kann, die im Notfall weiterhilft".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Notrufnummer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Notrufnummer, spelled N-O-T-R-U-F-N-U-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Telefonnummer, über die man jemanden/eine Institution erreichen kann, die im Notfall weiterhilft
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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Using “Notrufnummer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is N-O-T-R-U-F-N-U-M-M-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.