Obsidian
[ɔpz̥idiˈaːn]
The verdict
“Obsidian” is uncommon German (frequency #71,671 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,671
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dunkles und glasiges Gestein vulkanischer Herkunft
Corpus desk
Index DE-obsidian · Obsidian · German
Obsidian · rank #71,671 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,671
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Oberammergau
Nearest frequency peer: Oberammergau (-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 „Obsidian“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- nouvelles
nouvelles
28,334 corpus weight
- NRA
NRA
28,333 corpus weight
- Oberammergau
Oberammergau
28,331 corpus weight
- Obsidian
Obsidian
28,330 corpus weight
- Obstsorten
Obstsorten
28,329 corpus weight
- obszöne
obszöne
28,328 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Obsidian“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Obsidian |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔpz̥idiˈaːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Obsidian“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Obsidian is uncommon German at frequency #71,671 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɔpz̥idiˈaːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dunkles und glasiges Gestein vulkanischer Herkunft".
Obsidian doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Obsidian, spelled O-B-S-I-D-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1dunkles und glasiges Gestein vulkanischer Herkunft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Obsidian appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Steinwerkzeuge aus Obsidian und Flint lassen sich unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen aufgrund ihrer Patinaschichten, deren Stärke temperatur- und zeitabhängig ist, datieren.“
„Obsidian […] tritt in allen Fundstellen als Schneidewerkzeug, Pfeil- und Speerspitzen auf.“
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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