Wendekreis
[ˈvɛndəˌkʁaɪ̯s]
The verdict
“Wendekreis” is uncommon German (frequency #83,514 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,514
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Breitenkreis auf der Nord- beziehungsweise auf der Südhalbkugel, über dem die Sonne gerade noch im Zenit stehen kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-wendekreis · Wendekreis · German
Wendekreis · rank #83,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,514
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Weltruhm
Nearest frequency peer: Weltruhm (-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 „Wendekreis“
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 „Wendekreis“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wendekreis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛndəˌkʁaɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wendekreis“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wendekreis is uncommon German at frequency #83,514 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɛndəˌkʁaɪ̯s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Wendekreis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Wendekreis, spelled W-E-N-D-E-K-R-E-I-S.
Definition
- 1Breitenkreis auf der Nord- beziehungsweise auf der Südhalbkugel, über dem die Sonne gerade noch im Zenit stehen kann
- 2Kreis, der mindestens benötigt wird, um mit einem Kraftwagen bei vollem Lenkeinschlag zu wenden
- 3kreisförmiger Wendeplatz
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wendekreis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Einige Tage später überfuhr das Schiff den Wendekreis.“
„Ferner fällt der Wendekreis zumindest beim Prototypen noch extrem groß aus, und das Bremsen ist auch nicht so einfach wie gedacht.“
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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