thermal
[tɛʁˈmaːl]
The verdict
“thermal” is uncommon German (frequency #69,772 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,772
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Wärme betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-thermal · thermal · German
thermal · rank #69,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,772
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tertiär
Nearest frequency peer: Tertiär (-2 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 „thermal“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Teleskope
Teleskope
30,235 corpus weight
- Tempelritter
Tempelritter
30,234 corpus weight
- Terrorgrupp…
Terrorgruppen
30,232 corpus weight
- Tertiär
Tertiär
30,231 corpus weight
- thermal
thermal
30,229 corpus weight
- Thorben
Thorben
30,226 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „thermal“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thermal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [tɛʁˈmaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „thermal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
thermal is uncommon German at frequency #69,772 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [tɛʁˈmaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
thermal has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is thermal, spelled T-H-E-R-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1die Wärme betreffend
- 2auf warme/heiße Quellen bezogen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thermal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wurde eine klinische Bewertung der thermalen Meßtechnik zur Quantifizierung des EVLW versucht.
Die Ergebnisse fließen in die Untersuchungen zur Polbeleuchtung und die Studien der thermalen Bedingungen auf der Oberfläche des kleinen Mars Satelliten ein.
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Antonyms
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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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