welker
[ˈvɛlkɐ]
The verdict
“welker” is uncommon German (frequency #84,787 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,787
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs welk
Corpus desk
Index DE-welker · welker · German
welker · rank #84,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,787
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Welthunger
Nearest frequency peer: Welthunger (+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 “welker”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Weinstube
Weinstube
15,218 corpus weight
- Weissagung
Weissagung
15,217 corpus weight
- weiterdenken
weiterdenken
15,216 corpus weight
- welker
welker
15,214 corpus weight
- Welthunger
Welthunger
15,213 corpus weight
- wertvollster
wertvollster
15,211 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “welker” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | welker |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvɛlkɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “welker” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
welker is uncommon German at frequency #84,787 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈvɛlkɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for welker in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is welker, spelled W-E-L-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs welk
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs welk
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs welk
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs welk
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs welk
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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