surveillance
[sɜːˈveɪlən(t)s]
The verdict
“surveillance” is uncommon German (frequency #68,732 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,732
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Überwachung, Kontrolle, Beobachtung
Corpus desk
Index DE-surveillance · surveillance · German
surveillance · rank #68,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,732
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sumpfigen
Nearest frequency peer: sumpfigen (-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 „surveillance“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- stückweise
stückweise
31,273 corpus weight
- subventioni…
subventionieren
31,272 corpus weight
- Sulfat
Sulfat
31,271 corpus weight
- sumpfigen
sumpfigen
31,270 corpus weight
- surveillance
surveillance
31,269 corpus weight
- Symbolfigur
Symbolfigur
31,265 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „surveillance“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surveillance |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sɜːˈveɪlən(t)s] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #68,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „surveillance“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
surveillance is uncommon German at frequency #68,732 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [sɜːˈveɪlən(t)s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Überwachung, Kontrolle, Beobachtung".
No generated misspelling entries exist for surveillance in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is surveillance, spelled S-U-R-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Überwachung, Kontrolle, Beobachtung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surveillance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"As in the case of the Alan Hardy story, the moot point of moral surveillance is not ignored."
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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