Querbalken
[ˈkveːɐ̯ˌbalkn̩]
The verdict
“Querbalken” is uncommon German (frequency #56,450 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,450
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Balken, der rechtwinklig oder schräg zu einem anderen Balken verläuft
Corpus desk
Index DE-querbalken · Querbalken · German
Querbalken · rank #56,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,450
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH qualitativer
Nearest frequency peer: qualitativer (-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 „Querbalken“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Quader
Quader
43,553 corpus weight
- qualitativer
qualitativer
43,552 corpus weight
- Querbalken
Querbalken
43,551 corpus weight
- quillt
quillt
43,550 corpus weight
- radical
radical
43,549 corpus weight
- Raleigh
Raleigh
43,548 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Querbalken“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Querbalken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkveːɐ̯ˌbalkn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Querbalken“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Querbalken is uncommon German at frequency #56,450 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkveːɐ̯ˌbalkn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Balken, der rechtwinklig oder schräg zu einem anderen Balken verläuft".
Querbalken doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 Querbalken, spelled Q-U-E-R-B-A-L-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Balken, der rechtwinklig oder schräg zu einem anderen Balken verläuft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Querbalken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mit dem einen Fuß stand er auf dem schmalen Sims, der andere hing irgendwo in 15 Metern Höhe in der Luft, während er sich nach oben reckte, um den Flaschenzug in dem dafür vorgesehenen Eisenring am Querbalken zu verankern.“
„Jedes Boot bekam einen dreiundzwanzig Fuß langen Schlitten aus eisenbeschlagenen Kufen mit eichenen Querbalken und verlaschten Stützkeilen.“
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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