Vorbote
[ˈfoːɐ̯ˌboːtə]
The verdict
“Vorbote” is uncommon German (frequency #59,315 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,315
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas (Vorgang, Person, …), das auf Kommendes schließen lässt
Corpus desk
Index DE-vorbote · Vorbote · German
Vorbote · rank #59,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,315
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Vorsitzendem
Nearest frequency peer: Vorsitzendem (+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 „Vorbote“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Volumens
Volumens
40,689 corpus weight
- Vorankündig…
Vorankündigung
40,688 corpus weight
- Vorbote
Vorbote
40,686 corpus weight
- Vorsitzendem
Vorsitzendem
40,685 corpus weight
- vorteilhafte
vorteilhafte
40,684 corpus weight
- Völkchen
Völkchen
40,683 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Vorbote“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vorbote |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌboːtə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Vorbote“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Vorbote is uncommon German at frequency #59,315 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌboːtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas (Vorgang, Person, …), das auf Kommendes schließen lässt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Vorbote in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Vorbote, spelled V-O-R-B-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1etwas (Vorgang, Person, …), das auf Kommendes schließen lässt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vorbote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er kam als Vorbote des Kriegsendes.“
„Gelahrte Männer haben in ihren Büchern mancherlei über die vielen Vorboten aufgezeichnet, welche die Beulenpest auf Island ankündigten.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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