Tombak
[ˈtɔmbak]
The verdict
“Tombak” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Legierung aus Kupfer und Zink, die besonders als Goldimitation bei Schmuck verwendet wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-tombak · Tombak · German
Tombak · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tombak |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtɔmbak] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tombak“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tombak is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtɔmbak]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Legierung aus Kupfer und Zink, die besonders als Goldimitation bei Schmuck verwendet wird".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tombak, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Tombak, spelled T-O-M-B-A-K.
Definition
- 1Legierung aus Kupfer und Zink, die besonders als Goldimitation bei Schmuck verwendet wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tombak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieser Ring ist aus Tombak.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.