vakant
[vaˈkant]
The verdict
“vakant” is uncommon German (frequency #51,785 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,785
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verfügbar, frei, offen
Corpus desk
Index DE-vakant · vakant · German
vakant · rank #51,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,785
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Uslar
Nearest frequency peer: Uslar (-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 „vakant“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Urbar
Urbar
48,219 corpus weight
- Urzeit
Urzeit
48,218 corpus weight
- Uslar
Uslar
48,217 corpus weight
- vakant
vakant
48,216 corpus weight
- Veganismus
Veganismus
48,214 corpus weight
- verdenken
verdenken
48,213 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vakant“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vakant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [vaˈkant] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vakant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vakant is uncommon German at frequency #51,785 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [vaˈkant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "verfügbar, frei, offen".
No misspelling variants are generated for vakant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is vakant, spelled V-A-K-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1verfügbar, frei, offen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vakant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In unserer Abteilung gibt es drei vakante Stellen.
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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