Teflon
[ˈtɛflɔn]
The verdict
“Teflon” is uncommon German (frequency #67,771 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,771
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hitzebeständiger Kunststoff, der häufig als Beschichtungsmaterial dient
Corpus desk
Index DE-teflon · Teflon · German
Teflon · rank #67,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,771
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Teilnehmers
Nearest frequency peer: Teilnehmers (+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 „Teflon“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Taschendiebe
Taschendiebe
32,233 corpus weight
- taumeln
taumeln
32,232 corpus weight
- Teflon
Teflon
32,230 corpus weight
- Teilnehmers
Teilnehmers
32,229 corpus weight
- Teilnehmerz…
Teilnehmerzahlen
32,228 corpus weight
- Telefonleit…
Telefonleitung
32,227 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Teflon“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Teflon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtɛflɔn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Teflon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Teflon is uncommon German at frequency #67,771 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtɛflɔn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "hitzebeständiger Kunststoff, der häufig als Beschichtungsmaterial dient".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Teflon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Teflon, spelled T-E-F-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1hitzebeständiger Kunststoff, der häufig als Beschichtungsmaterial dient
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Teflon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine neue Bratpfanne ist mit Teflon beschichtet.
Synonyms
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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