vault
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The verdict
“vault” is uncommon German (frequency #60,196 among 49,639 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,196
- frequency rank, German
- 49,639
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bogenförmiges, gemauertes Bauelement an der Decke eines Raumes, oft in Kirchen; Gewölbe
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vault |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vault” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
vault is uncommon German at frequency #60,196 among 49,639 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vault, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is vault, spelled V-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1bogenförmiges, gemauertes Bauelement an der Decke eines Raumes, oft in Kirchen; Gewölbe
- 2Raum, den eine bogenförmige Decke abschließt; Gewölbe
- 3unterirdischer Lagerraum; Keller
- 4Raum, in dem verstorbene Menschen beigesetzt sind, meist Familienmitglieder; Gruft
- 5Raum mit dicken Wänden und extra gesicherter Tür für Wertgegenstände; Tresorraum
- 6alles, was einer gebogenen Raumdecke ähnlich ist; (Schädel)dach, (Gaumen)bogen, (Zwerchfell)kuppel
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 “vault”
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- The one correct German spelling is V-A-U-L-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.