Volksglauben
[fɔlksɡlaʊ̯bn̩]
The verdict
“Volksglauben” is uncommon German (frequency #82,309 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,309
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - überlieferte und im Volk verbreitete Annahme, die jedoch nicht belegt oder bewiesen ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-volksglauben · Volksglauben · German
Volksglauben · rank #82,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,309
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Virologie
Nearest frequency peer: Virologie (-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 „Volksglauben“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Verwundungen
Verwundungen
17,696 corpus weight
- Viadukt
Viadukt
17,695 corpus weight
- vieux
vieux
17,694 corpus weight
- Virologie
Virologie
17,693 corpus weight
- Volksglauben
Volksglauben
17,692 corpus weight
- volkstümlic…
volkstümlicher
17,690 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Volksglauben“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Volksglauben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɔlksɡlaʊ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #82,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Volksglauben“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Volksglauben is uncommon German at frequency #82,309 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɔlksɡlaʊ̯bn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "überlieferte und im Volk verbreitete Annahme, die jedoch nicht belegt oder bewiesen ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for Volksglauben in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Volksglauben, spelled V-O-L-K-S-G-L-A-U-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1überlieferte und im Volk verbreitete Annahme, die jedoch nicht belegt oder bewiesen ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Volksglauben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dem Volksglauben nach hält Knoblauch Vampire fern.
„Wenn wir auf ihre Intelligenz zu sprechen kamen, gedachte meine Frau, die übrigens nicht im geringsten abergläubisch war, manchmal des alten Volksglaubens, daß Hexen oft die Gestalt schwarzer Katzen anzunehmen pflegen. Nicht, daß sie damit jemals eine ernstliche Anspielung hätte machen wollen – ich erwähne es nur, weil ich gerade jetzt daran dachte.“
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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