Notrufnummer
[ˈnoːtʁuːfˌnʊmɐ]
The verdict
“Notrufnummer” is uncommon German (frequency #71,665 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,665
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Telefonnummer, über die man jemanden/eine Institution erreichen kann, die im Notfall weiterhilft
Corpus desk
Index DE-notrufnummer · Notrufnummer · German
Notrufnummer · rank #71,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,665
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nordmann
Nearest frequency peer: Nordmann (-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 „Notrufnummer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nippeln
Nippeln
28,339 corpus weight
- Nordmann
Nordmann
28,337 corpus weight
- Notrufnummer
Notrufnummer
28,336 corpus weight
- Notunterkun…
Notunterkunft
28,335 corpus weight
- nouvelles
nouvelles
28,334 corpus weight
- NRA
NRA
28,333 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Notrufnummer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Notrufnummer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Notrufnummer is uncommon German at frequency #71,665 among 1,954 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Notrufnummer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Trotz aller Versuchungen – oder auch deutlichen Signale, einen Flirt zu beginnen und mich ihnen zu nähern – habe ich mich an diese Regel gehalten, seit ich Mitte der achtziger Jahre die Notrufnummer für Opfer sexueller Belästigung an der Tür meines Büros fand.“
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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