volunteer
[ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪə(ɹ)]
The verdict
“volunteer” is uncommon German (frequency #99,298 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,298
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Freiwilliger (Helfer); ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter
Corpus desk
Index DE-volunteer · volunteer · German
volunteer · rank #99,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,298
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vollkommenes
Nearest frequency peer: vollkommenes (-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 „volunteer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Volksbewegu…
Volksbewegung
706 corpus weight
- vollkommenes
vollkommenes
704 corpus weight
- volunteer
volunteer
703 corpus weight
- vordem
vordem
702 corpus weight
- Vorderreifen
Vorderreifen
701 corpus weight
- Vorläufern
Vorläufern
700 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „volunteer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volunteer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪə(ɹ)] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „volunteer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
volunteer is uncommon German at frequency #99,298 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪə(ɹ)]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Freiwilliger (Helfer); ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for volunteer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is volunteer, spelled V-O-L-U-N-T-E-E-R.
Definition
- 1Freiwilliger (Helfer); ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter
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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