Voltmeter
[ˈvɔltˌmeːtɐ]
The verdict
“Voltmeter” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Messgerät zur Bestimmung der elektrischen Spannung
Corpus desk
Index DE-voltmeter · Voltmeter · German
Voltmeter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | Voltmeter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɔltˌmeːtɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Voltmeter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Voltmeter is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɔltˌmeːtɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Messgerät zur Bestimmung der elektrischen Spannung".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Voltmeter, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Voltmeter, spelled V-O-L-T-M-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Messgerät zur Bestimmung der elektrischen Spannung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Voltmeter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Für den Versuchsaufbau benötigte der Wissenschaftler mehrere Voltmeter.
„Das Voltmeter hingegen war nur aus einem einzigen Grund sehr verbreitet: Nichts ist einfacher und billiger als die Bordnetzspannung anzuzeigen, und es schaffte wenigstens ein wenig Cockpit-Atmosphäre.“
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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.