Vikunja
[viˈkʊnja]
The verdict
“Vikunja” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - südamerikanisches Kamel, das bräunliches Fell, aber keine Höcker hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-vikunja · Vikunja · German
Vikunja · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | Vikunja |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [viˈkʊnja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Vikunja“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Vikunja is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [viˈkʊnja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "südamerikanisches Kamel, das bräunliches Fell, aber keine Höcker hat".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Vikunja in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Vikunja, spelled V-I-K-U-N-J-A.
Definition
- 1südamerikanisches Kamel, das bräunliches Fell, aber keine Höcker hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vikunja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Arten wie das Vikunja in den Anden standen vor dem Aus, weil Restaurants das teure Fleisch bis zum letzten Tier verkaufen wollten.“
„Allein in einer Woche seien etwa 150 der für ihr feines Haar bekannten Vikunja in einem Gatter in der Gemeinde Ocana getötet worden, sagte der Gemeinderatsvorsitzende Wilder Mitta laut peruanischen Medienberichten.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.