Warnsignal
[ˈvaʁnzɪˌɡnaːl]
The verdict
“Warnsignal” is uncommon German (frequency #63,934 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,934
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vereinbartes Zeichen, das vor einer Gefahr warnt
Corpus desk
Index DE-warnsignal · Warnsignal · German
Warnsignal · rank #63,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,934
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Warenhäuser
Nearest frequency peer: Warenhäuser (-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 „Warnsignal“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wandgemälde
Wandgemälde
36,070 corpus weight
- WAP
WAP
36,069 corpus weight
- Warenhäuser
Warenhäuser
36,068 corpus weight
- Warnsignal
Warnsignal
36,067 corpus weight
- Wasserflasc…
Wasserflaschen
36,066 corpus weight
- Wasserschlo…
Wasserschloss
36,065 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Warnsignal“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Warnsignal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaʁnzɪˌɡnaːl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Warnsignal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Warnsignal is uncommon German at frequency #63,934 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvaʁnzɪˌɡnaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Warnsignal in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Warnsignal, spelled W-A-R-N-S-I-G-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1vereinbartes Zeichen, das vor einer Gefahr warnt
- 2Anzeichen, Symptom, das als Hinweis auf etwas Drohendes/Unerwünschtes gewertet werden kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Warnsignal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit der Hupe kann ein Autofahrer an andere Fahrer Warnsignale aussenden.
„Nicht nur war mein Interesse an weiteren Felszeichnungen gering, auch die Hitze machte mir zu schaffen, und zum ersten Mal auf dieser Reise begann ich die Warnsignale eines Hitzekollaps zu spüren, die ich von meiner Marokko-Reise in Erinnerung hatte.“
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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