Vatername
[ˈfaːtɐˌnaːmə]
The verdict
“Vatername” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Namenszusatz für eine Person, der dem Namen des Vaters entspricht
Corpus desk
Index DE-vatername · Vatername · German
Vatername · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | Vatername |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfaːtɐˌnaːmə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Vatername“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Vatername is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfaːtɐˌnaːmə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Vatername has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Vatername, spelled V-A-T-E-R-N-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Namenszusatz für eine Person, der dem Namen des Vaters entspricht
- 2der den Mitgliedern einer Familie gemeinsame Teil des (vollständigen) Namens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vatername appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Neben den Vatername konnte eine Person besonders durch den Sippennamen näher bestimmt werden.“
„Solche patronymischen Angaben oder Vaternamen sind noch im Isländischen oder im Russischen üblich.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
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.