Vorbemerkung
[ˈfoːɐ̯bəˌmɛʁkʊŋ]
The verdict
“Vorbemerkung” is uncommon German (frequency #63,922 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,922
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einleitende Bemerkung, meist als Vorwort eines Buches oder Vortrags
Corpus desk
Index DE-vorbemerkung · Vorbemerkung · German
Vorbemerkung · rank #63,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,922
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vorbeizukommen
Nearest frequency peer: vorbeizukommen (-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 „Vorbemerkung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Vollmilch
Vollmilch
36,082 corpus weight
- voranschrei…
voranschreiten
36,081 corpus weight
- vorbeizukom…
vorbeizukommen
36,080 corpus weight
- Vorbemerkung
Vorbemerkung
36,079 corpus weight
- Vorschlagha…
Vorschlaghammer
36,078 corpus weight
- Vorverurtei…
Vorverurteilung
36,077 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Vorbemerkung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vorbemerkung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoːɐ̯bəˌmɛʁkʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Vorbemerkung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Vorbemerkung is uncommon German at frequency #63,922 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfoːɐ̯bəˌmɛʁkʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "einleitende Bemerkung, meist als Vorwort eines Buches oder Vortrags".
Zero misspellings are on record for Vorbemerkung in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Vorbemerkung, spelled V-O-R-B-E-M-E-R-K-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1einleitende Bemerkung, meist als Vorwort eines Buches oder Vortrags
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Vorbemerkung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Guttenberg sieht sich genötigt, den Äußerungen zum neuen Afghanistan-Mandat der Bundeswehr eine Vorbemerkung voranzustellen.“
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).