Wassermühle
[ˈvasɐˌmyːlə]
The verdict
“Wassermühle” is uncommon German (frequency #75,235 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,235
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine durch Wasserkraft angetriebene Mühle
Corpus desk
Index DE-wassermuhle · Wassermühle · German
Wassermühle · rank #75,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,235
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wasserläufe
Nearest frequency peer: Wasserläufe (-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 „Wassermühle“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Warterei
Warterei
24,769 corpus weight
- Wasserlauf
Wasserlauf
24,768 corpus weight
- Wasserläufe
Wasserläufe
24,767 corpus weight
- Wassermühle
Wassermühle
24,766 corpus weight
- wegwirft
wegwirft
24,765 corpus weight
- wehrpflicht…
wehrpflichtigen
24,764 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wassermühle“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wassermühle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvasɐˌmyːlə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wassermühle“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wassermühle is uncommon German at frequency #75,235 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvasɐˌmyːlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine durch Wasserkraft angetriebene Mühle".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wassermühle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Wassermühle, spelled W-A-S-S-E-R-M-Ü-H-L-E.
Definition
- 1eine durch Wasserkraft angetriebene Mühle
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wassermühle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um Wassermühlen ranken sich Märchen und Sagen.
„Der Ingenieur wollte zuerst eine Wassermühle unter dem Wasserfall am Strand bauen, dann entschied man sich aber für eine Windmühle, die nach Pencroffs Ansicht auch viel besser in die Landschaft passen und lustiger aussehen würde.“
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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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).