Trommelfell
[ˈtʁɔml̩ˌfɛl]
The verdict
“Trommelfell” is uncommon German (frequency #57,483 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,483
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membran, mit der eine Trommel oder ein anderes Membranophon bespannt ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-trommelfell · Trommelfell · German
Trommelfell · rank #57,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,483
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Trockenzeit
Nearest frequency peer: Trockenzeit (-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 „Trommelfell“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Treibhausgas
Treibhausgas
42,522 corpus weight
- triviale
triviale
42,520 corpus weight
- Trockenzeit
Trockenzeit
42,519 corpus weight
- Trommelfell
Trommelfell
42,518 corpus weight
- Turbolader
Turbolader
42,516 corpus weight
- umfangreich…
umfangreichere
42,515 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Trommelfell“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Trommelfell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtʁɔml̩ˌfɛl] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Trommelfell“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Trommelfell is uncommon German at frequency #57,483 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtʁɔml̩ˌfɛl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Trommelfell doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Trommelfell, spelled T-R-O-M-M-E-L-F-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Membran, mit der eine Trommel oder ein anderes Membranophon bespannt ist
- 2Membran, die Außenohr und Mittelohr trennt und die akustische Schwingungen aufnimmt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Trommelfell appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei dieser Trommel muss das Trommelfell ersetzt werden.
„Als er aufhörte zu trommeln, ließ er die Hände auf dem Trommelfell liegen, als wollte er sie nicht von ihrem Körper nehmen, und sie blickten einander weiter an – und dann zur Seite, als fürchteten sie, jeder hätte das Begehren zwischen ihnen hin- und herfließen sehen.“
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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