Platzwunde
[ˈplat͡sˌvʊndə]
The verdict
“Platzwunde” is uncommon German (frequency #73,891 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,891
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - offene Verletzung der Haut
Corpus desk
Index DE-platzwunde · Platzwunde · German
Platzwunde · rank #73,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,891
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH plains
Nearest frequency peer: plains (-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 „Platzwunde“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- phänomenalen
phänomenalen
26,114 corpus weight
- Pickerl
Pickerl
26,113 corpus weight
- plains
plains
26,111 corpus weight
- Platzwunde
Platzwunde
26,110 corpus weight
- plauderte
plauderte
26,109 corpus weight
- plunder
plunder
26,108 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Platzwunde“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Platzwunde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈplat͡sˌvʊndə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Platzwunde“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Platzwunde is uncommon German at frequency #73,891 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈplat͡sˌvʊndə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "offene Verletzung der Haut".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Platzwunde, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Platzwunde, spelled P-L-A-T-Z-W-U-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1offene Verletzung der Haut
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Platzwunde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er zog sich bei einem Zusammenprall mit einem Mitspieler eine Platzwunde zu.
„Mein liebster Freund kam mit seiner Frau und ihren beiden Töchtern und fünf Minuten, nachdem sie angekommen waren, stürzte seine Frau aus der Hängematte, überschlug sich und hatte eine klaffende Platzwunde am Hinterkopf.“
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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