Wahlkarte
[ˈvaːlˌkaʁtə]
The verdict
“Wahlkarte” is uncommon German (frequency #81,145 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,145
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bescheinigung, die auf Antrag zur Verfügung gestellt wird, damit in einem anderen Wahllokal als demjenigen am Hauptwohnsitz oder mittels Briefwahl eine Stimmabgabe im Rahmen einer Wahl erfolgen kann
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wahlkarte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaːlˌkaʁtə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wahlkarte” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wahlkarte is uncommon German at frequency #81,145 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvaːlˌkaʁtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bescheinigung, die auf Antrag zur Verfügung gestellt wird, damit in einem anderen Wahllokal als demjenigen am Hauptwohnsitz oder mittels Briefwahl eine Stimmabgabe im Rahmen einer Wahl erfolgen kann".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wahlkarte in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Wahlkarte, spelled W-A-H-L-K-A-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bescheinigung, die auf Antrag zur Verfügung gestellt wird, damit in einem anderen Wahllokal als demjenigen am Hauptwohnsitz oder mittels Briefwahl eine Stimmabgabe im Rahmen einer Wahl erfolgen kann
Synonyms
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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Using “Wahlkarte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-A-H-L-K-A-R-T-E - 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.