volunteers
[ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪə(ɹ)z]
The verdict
“volunteers” is uncommon German (frequency #95,090 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,090
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs volunteer
Corpus desk
Index DE-volunteers · volunteers · German
volunteers · rank #95,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,090
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH voltage
Nearest frequency peer: voltage (-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 „volunteers“
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 „volunteers“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volunteers |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪə(ɹ)z] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „volunteers“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
volunteers is uncommon German at frequency #95,090 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪə(ɹ)z]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs volunteer".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for volunteers, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is volunteers, spelled V-O-L-U-N-T-E-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs volunteer
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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