Traversflöte
[tʁaˈvɛʁsˌfløːtə]
The verdict
“Traversflöte” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flöte, die beim Blasen quer gehalten wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-traversflote · Traversflöte · German
Traversflöte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Traversflöte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁaˈvɛʁsˌfløːtə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Traversflöte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Traversflöte is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [tʁaˈvɛʁsˌfløːtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Flöte, die beim Blasen quer gehalten wird".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Traversflöte in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Traversflöte, spelled T-R-A-V-E-R-S-F-L-Ö-T-E.
Definition
- 1Flöte, die beim Blasen quer gehalten wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Traversflöte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Querflöte intoniert dabei viertel- oder sechsteltönig tiefer als die Traversflöte.“
„Er ergänzte seine Ausbildung durch weiterführende Studien an der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, wo er sich im Hauptfach Traversflöte diplomierte.“
Synonyms
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.