Romanfigur
[ʁoˈmaːnfiˌɡuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Romanfigur” is uncommon German (frequency #84,485 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,485
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (meist fiktive) Person, die ein Schriftsteller in einem seiner Romane auftreten lässt
Corpus desk
Index DE-romanfigur · Romanfigur · German
Romanfigur · rank #84,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,485
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rodungen
Nearest frequency peer: Rodungen (-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 „Romanfigur“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ringkampf
Ringkampf
15,520 corpus weight
- Rippchen
Rippchen
15,518 corpus weight
- Rodungen
Rodungen
15,517 corpus weight
- Romanfigur
Romanfigur
15,516 corpus weight
- rosaroten
rosaroten
15,515 corpus weight
- rossa
rossa
15,513 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Romanfigur“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Romanfigur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁoˈmaːnfiˌɡuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Romanfigur“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Romanfigur is uncommon German at frequency #84,485 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʁoˈmaːnfiˌɡuːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(meist fiktive) Person, die ein Schriftsteller in einem seiner Romane auftreten lässt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Romanfigur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Romanfigur, spelled R-O-M-A-N-F-I-G-U-R.
Definition
- 1(meist fiktive) Person, die ein Schriftsteller in einem seiner Romane auftreten lässt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Romanfigur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie wollte ihm nicht vorwerfen, dass ihm seine Romanfiguren immer nähergestanden hatten als die Menschen, die um ihn waren.“
„Die Standpunkte von Romanfiguren müssen unvereinbar sein, sonst gibt es keine Geschichte.“
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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