Rauchsäule
[ˈʁaʊ̯xˌzɔɪ̯lə]
The verdict
“Rauchsäule” is uncommon German (frequency #93,454 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,454
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - säulenartiges Gebilde aus Rauch
Corpus desk
Index DE-rauchsaule · Rauchsäule · German
Rauchsäule · rank #93,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,454
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Ratatouille
Nearest frequency peer: Ratatouille (-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 „Rauchsäule“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Radkappen
Radkappen
6,550 corpus weight
- Randgebiete
Randgebiete
6,549 corpus weight
- Ratatouille
Ratatouille
6,548 corpus weight
- Rauchsäule
Rauchsäule
6,547 corpus weight
- Reaktionsze…
Reaktionszeiten
6,545 corpus weight
- Realitätssi…
Realitätssinn
6,544 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Rauchsäule“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rauchsäule |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁaʊ̯xˌzɔɪ̯lə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Rauchsäule“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Rauchsäule is uncommon German at frequency #93,454 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁaʊ̯xˌzɔɪ̯lə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "säulenartiges Gebilde aus Rauch".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rauchsäule, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Rauchsäule, spelled R-A-U-C-H-S-Ä-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1säulenartiges Gebilde aus Rauch
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rauchsäule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Madam schloss halb ihre Augen, zog noch einmal tief an der Zigarette, blies eine schmale Rauchsäule ins Zimmer und öffnete sie langsam wieder.“
„Als sie sich näherten, sahen sie die ersten Rauchsäulen von großen Handelsschiffen.“
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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