vacation
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The verdict
“vacation” is uncommon German (frequency #81,093 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,093
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ferien
Corpus desk
Index DE-vacation · vacation · German
vacation · rank #81,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,093
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Usenet
Nearest frequency peer: Usenet (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “vacation”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Urbanität
Urbanität
18,912 corpus weight
- Ursprünglic…
Ursprünglichkeit
18,911 corpus weight
- Usenet
Usenet
18,910 corpus weight
- vacation
vacation
18,908 corpus weight
- VBA
VBA
18,906 corpus weight
- Veitshöchhe…
Veitshöchheim
18,905 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vacation” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| 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) |
Wo “vacation” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
vacation is uncommon German at frequency #81,093 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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