Vlog

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The verdict

“Vlog” is uncommon German (frequency #68,855 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,855
frequency rank, German
4,163
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blog, das in Form eines Videos erstellt wird

Corpus desk

Index DE-vlog · Vlog · German

Vlog · rank #68,855 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,855
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,163
  • PHOTO-FINISH virtue

Nearest frequency peer: virtue (-2 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 „Vlog“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Vlog
PropertyValue
HeadwordVlog
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#68,855
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Vlog“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).Vlogfällt 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: „virtue“ (#68,853), „vollzogenen“ (#68,857), „Volontär“ (#68,858). Unter 4,163 „V“-Lemmata liegt „Vlog“ bei #68,855. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Vlog is uncommon German at frequency #68,855 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Blog, das in Form eines Videos erstellt wird".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Vlog, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented 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 Vlog, spelled V-L-O-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Blog, das in Form eines Videos erstellt wird

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „Kommentare möchte die Kanzlerin per E-Mail bekommen - was in deutschen Blogs mit Stirnrunzeln quittiert wird. Ein richtiges Video-Weblog, ein so genanntes Vlog, das wäre für die Kanzlerin offenbar doch noch zu experimentell.“
  2. „Rocketboom ist ein Videoblog, kurz: Vlog, und nicht nur irgendeins dieser sich rasant verbreitenden, jüngsten Entwicklungsstufe internetspezifischer Formate - nach normalen Blogs (von „Weblogs“, Internet-Tagebüchern), Fotoblogs, Moblogs (mobil erstellte Blogs) und Podcasts (selbstproduzierte Hörstücke, die man auf dem iPod abspielen kann).“

Synonyms

Videoblog

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Vlog"?
"Vlog" is spelled V-L-O-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Vlog" mean?
As a noun, "Vlog" means: Blog, das in Form eines Videos erstellt wird
How do you pronounce "Vlog"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Vlog" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Vlog" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list