Viadukt
[viaˈdʊkt]
The verdict
“Viadukt” is uncommon German (frequency #82,306 among 49,639 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,306
- frequency rank, German
- 49,639
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine mehr oder minder hohe, meist sehr lange Brücke, die als Träger für eine Straße oder eine Eisenbahnlinie dient, um ein Tal oder eine Senke steigungsarm zu überwinden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Viadukt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [viaˈdʊkt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Viadukt” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Viadukt is uncommon German at frequency #82,306 among 49,639 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [viaˈdʊkt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine mehr oder minder hohe, meist sehr lange Brücke, die als Träger für eine Straße oder eine Eisenbahnlinie dient, um ein Tal oder eine Senke steigungsarm zu überwinden".
No misspelling variants are generated for Viadukt in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Viadukt, spelled V-I-A-D-U-K-T.
Definition
- 1eine mehr oder minder hohe, meist sehr lange Brücke, die als Träger für eine Straße oder eine Eisenbahnlinie dient, um ein Tal oder eine Senke steigungsarm zu überwinden
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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Using “Viadukt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is V-I-A-D-U-K-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.