voltage
[vəʊltɪdʒ]
The verdict
“voltage” is uncommon German (frequency #95,089 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,089
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elektrische Spannung
Corpus desk
Index DE-voltage · voltage · German
voltage · rank #95,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,089
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH volunteers
Nearest frequency peer: volunteers (+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 „voltage“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Volkert
Volkert
4,915 corpus weight
- voltage
voltage
4,912 corpus weight
- volunteers
volunteers
4,911 corpus weight
- Vorderbeine
Vorderbeine
4,910 corpus weight
- vorgingen
vorgingen
4,909 corpus weight
- vorherbesti…
vorherbestimmt
4,908 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „voltage“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voltage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vəʊltɪdʒ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „voltage“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
voltage is uncommon German at frequency #95,089 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [vəʊltɪdʒ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "elektrische Spannung".
No generated misspelling entries exist for voltage in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is voltage, spelled V-O-L-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1elektrische Spannung
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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