Talg

[talk]

/[talk]/ noun

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The verdict

“Talg” is uncommon German (frequency #80,991 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,991
frequency rank, German
2,684
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aus geschlachteten Wiederkäuern gewonnenes festes Körperfett

Corpus desk

Index DE-talg · Talg · German

Talg · rank #80,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,991
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,684
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tanzsaal

Nearest frequency peer: Tanzsaal (+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 „Talg“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Talg“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Talg
PropertyValue
HeadwordTalg
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[talk]
Letters4
Frequency rank#80,991
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Talg“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Talgfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Tanzsaal“ (#80,992), „Tagesform“ (#80,989), „tarnt“ (#80,993). Unter 2,684 „T“-Lemmata liegt „Talg“ bei #80,991. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Talg is uncommon German at frequency #80,991 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [talk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Talg doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Talg, spelled T-A-L-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    aus geschlachteten Wiederkäuern gewonnenes festes Körperfett
  2. 2
    ein Lipid aus Talgdrüsen der Haut

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Talg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Talg von Rindernieren dient zum Frittieren.
  2. Talg ist Hauptbestandteil des Smegmas.

Synonyms

Unschlitt

This word in other languages

tallow(English)sebo(Español)suif(Français)sebo(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Talg"?
"Talg" is spelled T-A-L-G. The IPA pronunciation is [talk].
What does "Talg" mean?
As a noun, "Talg" means: aus geschlachteten Wiederkäuern gewonnenes festes Körperfett
How do you pronounce "Talg"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Talg" is [talk]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Talg" come from?
"Talg" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Talg", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Styx#80,971tini#81,018UCLA#81,050Ulme#81,053

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list