weapon
[ˈwɛpən]
The verdict
“weapon” is uncommon German (frequency #68,874 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,874
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Waffe
Corpus desk
Index DE-weapon · weapon · German
weapon · rank #68,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,874
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Warnstreiks
Nearest frequency peer: Warnstreiks (-2 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 „weapon“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- warben
warben
31,131 corpus weight
- Warnhinweis
Warnhinweis
31,130 corpus weight
- Warnstreiks
Warnstreiks
31,129 corpus weight
- weapon
weapon
31,127 corpus weight
- Weichteile
Weichteile
31,125 corpus weight
- weidlich
weidlich
31,124 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „weapon“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weapon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwɛpən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „weapon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
weapon is uncommon German at frequency #68,874 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈwɛpən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Waffe".
No generated misspelling entries exist for weapon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 weapon, spelled W-E-A-P-O-N.
Definition
- 1die Waffe
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how weapon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Don't play around with the pistol. It is a lethal weapon!
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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