Tennisball
[ˈtɛnɪsˌbal]
The verdict
“Tennisball” is uncommon German (frequency #88,383 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,383
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gegenstand: ein Spielgerät, mit dem Tennis gespielt wird. Er wird mit Hilfe der Tennisschläger getroffen.
Corpus desk
Index DE-tennisball · Tennisball · German
Tennisball · rank #88,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,383
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tennisprofi
Nearest frequency peer: Tennisprofi (+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 „Tennisball“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Telefonansc…
Telefonanschluss
11,621 corpus weight
- Telemetrie
Telemetrie
11,620 corpus weight
- Tennisball
Tennisball
11,618 corpus weight
- Tennisprofi
Tennisprofi
11,617 corpus weight
- Tensor
Tensor
11,616 corpus weight
- Teutonen
Teutonen
11,614 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Tennisball“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tennisball |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtɛnɪsˌbal] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tennisball“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tennisball is uncommon German at frequency #88,383 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtɛnɪsˌbal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gegenstand: ein Spielgerät, mit dem Tennis gespielt wird. Er wird mit Hilfe der Tennisschläger getroffen.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tennisball, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Tennisball, spelled T-E-N-N-I-S-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Gegenstand: ein Spielgerät, mit dem Tennis gespielt wird. Er wird mit Hilfe der Tennisschläger getroffen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tennisball appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Defekte Tennisbälle werden während eines Tennisspiels ausgewechselt.
„Während des Tennisspiels kommt es vor, daß aufgrund von Fehlschlägen Tennisbälle über den Maschendrahtzaun auf die benachbarten Grundstücke der Kläger (manchmal bis zu den Wohnhäusern, Gartenmöbeln oder Autos) fliegen.“
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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