Vorbereitungsspiel
[ˈfoːɐ̯bəʁaɪ̯tʊŋsˌʃpiːl]
The verdict
“Vorbereitungsspiel” is uncommon German (frequency #83,487 among 49,639 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,487
- frequency rank, German
- 49,639
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Spiel, das als Übung für einen Wettkampf/Wettbewerb gilt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vorbereitungsspiel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoːɐ̯bəʁaɪ̯tʊŋsˌʃpiːl] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Frequency rank | #83,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Vorbereitungsspiel” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Vorbereitungsspiel is uncommon German at frequency #83,487 among 49,639 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfoːɐ̯bəʁaɪ̯tʊŋsˌʃpiːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spiel, das als Übung für einen Wettkampf/Wettbewerb gilt".
Vorbereitungsspiel has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Vorbereitungsspiel, spelled V-O-R-B-E-R-E-I-T-U-N-G-S-S-P-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Spiel, das als Übung für einen Wettkampf/Wettbewerb gilt
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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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- The one correct German spelling is V-O-R-B-E-R-E-I-T-U-N-G-S-S-P-I-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.