Wasserfläche
[ˈvasɐˌflɛçə]
The verdict
“Wasserfläche” is uncommon German (frequency #50,187 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,187
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - von Wasser eingenommene Fläche
Corpus desk
Index DE-wasserflache · Wasserfläche · German
Wasserfläche · rank #50,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,187
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 38,697
- PHOTO-FINISH waiting
Nearest frequency peer: waiting (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Wasserfläche”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wahlkabine
Wahlkabine
49,817 corpus weight
- wahrscheinl…
wahrscheinliche
49,816 corpus weight
- waiting
waiting
49,815 corpus weight
- Wasserfläche
Wasserfläche
49,814 corpus weight
- Weberei
Weberei
49,812 corpus weight
- Webserver
Webserver
49,811 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Wasserfläche” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wasserfläche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvasɐˌflɛçə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wasserfläche” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wasserfläche is uncommon German at frequency #50,187 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvasɐˌflɛçə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "von Wasser eingenommene Fläche".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wasserfläche, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Wasserfläche, spelled W-A-S-S-E-R-F-L-Ä-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1von Wasser eingenommene Fläche
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Wasserfläche", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.