Somnambulie
[zɔmnambuˈliː]
The verdict
“Somnambulie” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Phänomen, bei dem der Schlafende ohne aufzuwachen das Bett verlässt, umhergeht und teilweise auch Tätigkeiten verrichtet
Corpus desk
Index DE-somnambulie · Somnambulie · German
Somnambulie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Somnambulie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zɔmnambuˈliː] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Somnambulie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Somnambulie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [zɔmnambuˈliː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Phänomen, bei dem der Schlafende ohne aufzuwachen das Bett verlässt, umhergeht und teilweise auch Tätigkeiten verrichtet".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Somnambulie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Somnambulie, spelled S-O-M-N-A-M-B-U-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Phänomen, bei dem der Schlafende ohne aufzuwachen das Bett verlässt, umhergeht und teilweise auch Tätigkeiten verrichtet
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Somnambulie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der aktuelle Forschungsstand geht davon aus, dass es sich bei der Somnambulie um eine Störung des Aufwachmechanismus handelt.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.