Weltruhm
[ˈvɛltˌʁuːm]
The verdict
“Weltruhm” is uncommon German (frequency #83,513 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,513
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weltweiter Ruhm
Corpus desk
Index DE-weltruhm · Weltruhm · German
Weltruhm · rank #83,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,513
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wendekreis
Nearest frequency peer: Wendekreis (+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 „Weltruhm“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Weihnachtst…
Weihnachtstage
16,492 corpus weight
- weiterverbr…
weiterverbreitet
16,491 corpus weight
- Weltruhm
Weltruhm
16,488 corpus weight
- Wendekreis
Wendekreis
16,487 corpus weight
- Werdau
Werdau
16,485 corpus weight
- werdend
werdend
16,484 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Weltruhm“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Weltruhm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛltˌʁuːm] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Weltruhm“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Weltruhm is uncommon German at frequency #83,513 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɛltˌʁuːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weltweiter Ruhm".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Weltruhm in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Weltruhm, spelled W-E-L-T-R-U-H-M.
Definition
- 1weltweiter Ruhm
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Weltruhm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nicht nur seelische Verarbeitung, nicht nur Abreaktion des bisherigen künstlerischen Mißerfolgs, nicht nur pragmatische Erzwingung einer literarischen Sensation, schon gar nicht pazifistisches Bekennertum haben den Roman und die künstlerische Verarbeitung des Kriegsthemas begründet, sondern all dies spielte mit, als Remarque begann, sich in den Weltruhm…
„Er war bereit, seinen wissenschaftlichen Weltruhm für gute Zwecke einzusetzen.“
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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