vacation
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The verdict
“vacation” is an uncommon German word, ranked #81,093 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #81,093
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ferien
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vacation” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vacation is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,093 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for vacation in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 vacation, spelled V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ferien
- 2vorlesungsfreie Zeit an Hochschulen
- 3Zeitraum, in dem eine Einrichtung oder Betrieb geschlossen ist; Betriebsferien
- 4eine Atempause oder eine Zeit der Ruhepause von etwas
- 5Urlaub
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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Using “vacation”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.