Wanduhr
[ˈvantˌʔuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Wanduhr” is uncommon German (frequency #89,798 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,798
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Uhr, die an einer Wand befestigt ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-wanduhr · Wanduhr · German
Wanduhr · rank #89,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,798
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wanderpokal
Nearest frequency peer: Wanderpokal (-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 „Wanduhr“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Waldspazier…
Waldspaziergang
10,206 corpus weight
- wam
wam
10,205 corpus weight
- Wanderpokal
Wanderpokal
10,204 corpus weight
- Wanduhr
Wanduhr
10,203 corpus weight
- waschechten
waschechten
10,202 corpus weight
- Waschung
Waschung
10,201 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wanduhr“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wanduhr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvantˌʔuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wanduhr“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wanduhr is uncommon German at frequency #89,798 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvantˌʔuːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Uhr, die an einer Wand befestigt ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wanduhr, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Wanduhr, spelled W-A-N-D-U-H-R.
Definition
- 1Uhr, die an einer Wand befestigt ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wanduhr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Wanduhr befindet sich über der Eingangstür.
Es gibt digitale und analoge Wanduhren, des Weiteren können sie nach Funkwanduhren oder mechanischen Wanduhren unterschieden werden. Zusätzlich gibt es Wanduhren mit Batteriebetrieb oder mit Stromkabel.
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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