Präludium
[pʁɛˈluːdi̯ʊm]
The verdict
“Präludium” is uncommon German (frequency #71,742 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,742
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ursprünglich: einleitendes Vorspiel zu einem Musikstück
Corpus desk
Index DE-praludium · Präludium · German
Präludium · rank #71,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,742
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Prozenten
Nearest frequency peer: Prozenten (-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 „Präludium“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- provozierend
provozierend
28,262 corpus weight
- Prozenten
Prozenten
28,260 corpus weight
- Präludium
Präludium
28,259 corpus weight
- psychotisch…
psychotischen
28,257 corpus weight
- Punktsieg
Punktsieg
28,256 corpus weight
- Pups
Pups
28,255 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Präludium“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Präludium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁɛˈluːdi̯ʊm] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Präludium“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Präludium is uncommon German at frequency #71,742 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pʁɛˈluːdi̯ʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Präludium has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Präludium, spelled P-R-Ä-L-U-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1ursprünglich: einleitendes Vorspiel zu einem Musikstück
- 2eigene musikalische Form für Tasteninstrumente oder auch Orchester
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Präludium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Präludium ist ein Instrumentalwerk mit eröffnendem oder hinführendem Charakter.
"Präludium und Fuge Es-Dur" BWV 552 ist ein Orgelwerk von Johann Sebastian Bach.
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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