Tankwart
[ˈtaŋkvaʁt]
The verdict
“Tankwart” is uncommon German (frequency #93,696 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,696
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beschäftigter einer Tankstelle, der die Zapfanlage bedient
Corpus desk
Index DE-tankwart · Tankwart · German
Tankwart · rank #93,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,696
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tapetenwechsel
Nearest frequency peer: Tapetenwechsel (+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 „Tankwart“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sündenböcke
Sündenböcke
6,309 corpus weight
- tagenden
tagenden
6,307 corpus weight
- Tankwart
Tankwart
6,305 corpus weight
- Tapetenwech…
Tapetenwechsel
6,304 corpus weight
- Tastenkombi…
Tastenkombination
6,302 corpus weight
- tasting
tasting
6,301 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Tankwart“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tankwart |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtaŋkvaʁt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tankwart“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tankwart is uncommon German at frequency #93,696 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtaŋkvaʁt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Beschäftigter einer Tankstelle, der die Zapfanlage bedient".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tankwart, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Tankwart, spelled T-A-N-K-W-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Beschäftigter einer Tankstelle, der die Zapfanlage bedient
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tankwart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An manchen Tankstellen hat einem früher der Tankwart sogar noch die Scheibe geputzt!
„Die kühle Nachtluft, die Bewegung und die besorgte Stimme des Tankwarts rissen sie aus ihrem Gedankenkarussell.“
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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