vault

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The verdict

“vault” is uncommon German (frequency #60,196 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,196
frequency rank, German
4,163
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bogenförmiges, gemauertes Bauelement an der Decke eines Raumes, oft in Kirchen; Gewölbe

Corpus desk

Index DE-vault · vault · German

vault · rank #60,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,196
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,163
  • PHOTO-FINISH Urlaubern

Nearest frequency peer: Urlaubern (-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 „vault“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vault“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for vault
PropertyValue
Headwordvault
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#60,196
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „vault“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.vaultfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Urlaubern“ (#60,195), „urbaner“ (#60,194), „verdonnert“ (#60,198). Unter 4,163 „V“-Lemmata liegt „vault“ bei #60,196. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

vault is uncommon German at frequency #60,196 among 4,163 “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

  1. 1
    bogenförmiges, gemauertes Bauelement an der Decke eines Raumes, oft in Kirchen; Gewölbe
  2. 2
    Raum, den eine bogenförmige Decke abschließt; Gewölbe
  3. 3
    unterirdischer Lagerraum; Keller
  4. 4
    Raum, in dem verstorbene Menschen beigesetzt sind, meist Familienmitglieder; Gruft
  5. 5
    Raum mit dicken Wänden und extra gesicherter Tür für Wertgegenstände; Tresorraum
  6. 6
    alles, was einer gebogenen Raumdecke ähnlich ist; (Schädel)dach, (Gaumen)bogen, (Zwerchfell)kuppel

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how vault appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. “The subsequent neglect caused the vault of the church to collapse in 1842.”
  2. “Ripping off his costume, he breaks through the stage backdrop into a vault where an alchemist's laboratory is revealed […].”

Synonyms

archvaultingcellarcryptmausoleumtomb

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vault"?
"vault" is spelled V-A-U-L-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "vault" mean?
As a noun, "vault" means: bogenförmiges, gemauertes Bauelement an der Decke eines Raumes, oft in Kirchen; Gewölbe
How do you pronounce "vault"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vault" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vault", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Tusch#60,164waits#60,236Thora#60,147whale#60,255

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list