Tachyon
[ˈtaxyɔn]
The verdict
“Tachyon” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hypothetisches Elementarteilchen, das sich schneller als Licht fortbewegt
Corpus desk
Index DE-tachyon · Tachyon · German
Tachyon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | Tachyon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtaxyɔn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tachyon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tachyon is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtaxyɔn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "hypothetisches Elementarteilchen, das sich schneller als Licht fortbewegt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tachyon, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Tachyon, spelled T-A-C-H-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1hypothetisches Elementarteilchen, das sich schneller als Licht fortbewegt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tachyon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Existenz von Tachyonen konnte bis jetzt noch nicht bewiesen werden.
This word in other languages
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