Schwungrad
[ˈʃvʊŋˌʁaːt]
The verdict
“Schwungrad” is uncommon German (frequency #90,871 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,871
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mechanische Vorrichtung zur Speicherung von kinetischer Winkelenergie in einer rotierenden Masse
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwungrad · Schwungrad · German
Schwungrad · rank #90,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,871
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 107,600
- PHOTO-FINISH schwerwiegend…
Nearest frequency peer: schwerwiegendes (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Schwungrad”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schwangau
Schwangau
9,135 corpus weight
- Schwarzlicht
Schwarzlicht
9,133 corpus weight
- Schwerverle…
Schwerverletzter
9,132 corpus weight
- schwerwiege…
schwerwiegendes
9,131 corpus weight
- Schwungrad
Schwungrad
9,130 corpus weight
- Schönbergs
Schönbergs
9,125 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Schwungrad” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schwungrad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃvʊŋˌʁaːt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schwungrad” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Schwungrad is uncommon German at frequency #90,871 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃvʊŋˌʁaːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mechanische Vorrichtung zur Speicherung von kinetischer Winkelenergie in einer rotierenden Masse".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schwungrad, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Schwungrad, spelled S-C-H-W-U-N-G-R-A-D.
Definition
- 1mechanische Vorrichtung zur Speicherung von kinetischer Winkelenergie in einer rotierenden Masse
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.