tournament

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The verdict

“tournament” is uncommon German (frequency #56,590 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,590
frequency rank, German
2,684
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Turnier

Corpus desk

Index DE-tournament · tournament · German

tournament · rank #56,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,590
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,684
  • PHOTO-FINISH totschlagen

Nearest frequency peer: totschlagen (-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 „tournament“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tournament“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tournament
PropertyValue
Headwordtournament
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters10
Frequency rank#56,590
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „tournament“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).tournamentfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „totschlagen“ (#56,589), „topfit“ (#56,588), „Treffs“ (#56,592). Unter 2,684 „T“-Lemmata liegt „tournament“ bei #56,590. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tournament is uncommon German at frequency #56,590 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Turnier".

Zero misspellings are on record for tournament in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 tournament, spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Turnier

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tournament appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The next tournament is on Saturday.
  2. He lost all his tournaments.

This word in other languages

tournoi(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tournament"?
"tournament" is spelled T-O-U-R-N-A-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "tournament" mean?
As a noun, "tournament" means: Turnier
How do you pronounce "tournament"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tournament" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tournament", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sämtliches#56,574unbestimmt#56,607symposiums#56,572ungesunden#56,615

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list