weltfremd
[ˈvɛltˌfʁɛmt]
The verdict
“weltfremd” is uncommon German (frequency #50,196 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,196
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abgewandt von der Wirklichkeit, wenig Kenntnis von den wirklichen Gegebenheiten habend
Corpus desk
Index DE-weltfremd · weltfremd · German
weltfremd · rank #50,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,196
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wehrten
Nearest frequency peer: wehrten (-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 „weltfremd“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wecke
Wecke
49,809 corpus weight
- wegsehen
wegsehen
49,808 corpus weight
- wehrten
wehrten
49,807 corpus weight
- weltfremd
weltfremd
49,805 corpus weight
- Wermelskirc…
Wermelskirchen
49,802 corpus weight
- wertschätzen
wertschätzen
49,801 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „weltfremd“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weltfremd |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvɛltˌfʁɛmt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „weltfremd“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
weltfremd is uncommon German at frequency #50,196 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈvɛltˌfʁɛmt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
weltfremd has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 weltfremd, spelled W-E-L-T-F-R-E-M-D.
Definition
- 1abgewandt von der Wirklichkeit, wenig Kenntnis von den wirklichen Gegebenheiten habend
- 2völlig andersartig, völlig fremd
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how weltfremd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wie gelähmt schaute die weltfremde Maurine in die Trommel der Waschmaschine.
Als ich sagte: „Hol mal bitte den Laptop.“, schleppte der weltfremde Egon tatsächlich einen Topf aus der Küche herbei - er hatte „schlepp Topp“ verstanden.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).