Weigand
[ˈvaɪ̯ˌɡant]
The verdict
“Weigand” is uncommon German (frequency #56,676 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,676
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (heldenhafter) Kämpfer
Corpus desk
Index DE-weigand · Weigand · German
Weigand · rank #56,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,676
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wegweisende
Nearest frequency peer: wegweisende (-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 „Weigand“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Waldkirch
Waldkirch
43,328 corpus weight
- Webbrowser
Webbrowser
43,327 corpus weight
- wegweisende
wegweisende
43,326 corpus weight
- Weigand
Weigand
43,325 corpus weight
- weihnachtli…
weihnachtlich
43,324 corpus weight
- Weihnachtsg…
Weihnachtsgeschäft
43,323 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Weigand“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Weigand |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaɪ̯ˌɡant] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Weigand“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Weigand is uncommon German at frequency #56,676 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvaɪ̯ˌɡant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(heldenhafter) Kämpfer".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Weigand in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Weigand, spelled W-E-I-G-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1(heldenhafter) Kämpfer
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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