whistle

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The verdict

“whistle” is uncommon German (frequency #78,758 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,758
frequency rank, German
2,930
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pfeife

Corpus desk

Index DE-whistle · whistle · German

whistle · rank #78,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,758
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,930
  • PHOTO-FINISH Wertminderung

Nearest frequency peer: Wertminderung (-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 „whistle“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „whistle“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for whistle
PropertyValue
Headwordwhistle
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#78,758
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „whistle“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).whistlefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Wertminderung“ (#78,757), „Weltreich“ (#78,755), „wilhelminischen“ (#78,761). Unter 2,930 „W“-Lemmata liegt „whistle“ bei #78,758. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

whistle is uncommon German at frequency #78,758 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pfeife".

whistle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is whistle, spelled W-H-I-S-T-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pfeife

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "whistle"?
"whistle" is spelled W-H-I-S-T-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "whistle" mean?
As a noun, "whistle" means: Pfeife
How do you pronounce "whistle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "whistle" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "whistle", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Zahnfee#78,783vitalen#78,717Abfalls#78,820Ablaufs#78,826

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list