vena
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The verdict
“vena” is uncommon German (frequency #74,120 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,120
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Vene, die Ader
Corpus desk
Index DE-vena · vena · German
vena · rank #74,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,120
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verausgabt
Nearest frequency peer: verausgabt (+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 „vena“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Varus
Varus
25,884 corpus weight
- vasco
vasco
25,883 corpus weight
- vena
vena
25,881 corpus weight
- verausgabt
verausgabt
25,880 corpus weight
- Verbotsverf…
Verbotsverfahren
25,879 corpus weight
- verfassungs…
verfassungskonform
25,878 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vena“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vena |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vena“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vena is uncommon German at frequency #74,120 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Vene, die Ader".
vena doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 vena, spelled V-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1die Vene, die Ader
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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