Rheingold
[ˈʁaɪ̯nɡɔlt]
The verdict
“Rheingold” is uncommon German (frequency #54,838 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,838
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gold, das im Rhein gefunden wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-rheingold · Rheingold · German
Rheingold · rank #54,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,838
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH revolutioniert
Nearest frequency peer: revolutioniert (-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 „Rheingold“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Reservation
Reservation
45,166 corpus weight
- Rettungsboot
Rettungsboot
45,165 corpus weight
- revolutioni…
revolutioniert
45,164 corpus weight
- Rheingold
Rheingold
45,163 corpus weight
- Rohmaterial
Rohmaterial
45,162 corpus weight
- Rosenberger
Rosenberger
45,160 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Rheingold“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rheingold |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁaɪ̯nɡɔlt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Rheingold“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Rheingold is uncommon German at frequency #54,838 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁaɪ̯nɡɔlt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gold, das im Rhein gefunden wird".
Zero misspellings are on record for Rheingold in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Rheingold, spelled R-H-E-I-N-G-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1Gold, das im Rhein gefunden wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rheingold appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Rheingold, von dem die Sagen und Richard Wagner erzählen, lag nicht irgendwo zwischen den Felsen des Mittelrheins auf dem Flußgrund verborgen, sondern es wurde aus den Alpen, vom gebirgigen Ursprung her mit Glimmer, Quarz und Feldspat in winzigen Plättchen zu Tal geschwemmt und am Oberrhein abgelagert.“
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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