Wahlgänger
[ˈvaːlˌɡɛŋɐ]
The verdict
“Wahlgänger” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die an einer Wahl teilnimmt/teilnahm
Corpus desk
Index DE-wahlganger · Wahlgänger · German
Wahlgänger · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wahlgänger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaːlˌɡɛŋɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wahlgänger“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wahlgänger is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvaːlˌɡɛŋɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die an einer Wahl teilnimmt/teilnahm".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wahlgänger, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Wahlgänger, spelled W-A-H-L-G-Ä-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die an einer Wahl teilnimmt/teilnahm
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wahlgänger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Tatsächlich aber sind die Mormonen Romneys treueste Truppe. Sie machen in Nevada zwar nur knapp acht Prozent der Bevölkerung aus, gelten aber als motivierte Wahlgänger.“
„Gleichzeitig zeichnet sich kein Rückgang der regelmäßigen Wahlgänger ab (55 % im Jahr 1995, 47% im Jahr 2002).“
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.