Whistler
[ˈwɪslɐ]
The verdict
“Whistler” is uncommon German (frequency #51,837 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,837
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elektromagnetische Welle, die von Blitzen in der Troposphäre ausgesendet werden und entlang der magnetischen Feldlinien der Erde den Raum durchlaufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-whistler · Whistler · German
Whistler · rank #51,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,837
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wichen
Nearest frequency peer: wichen (+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 „Whistler“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Werbeträger
Werbeträger
48,167 corpus weight
- werkeln
werkeln
48,166 corpus weight
- Whistler
Whistler
48,164 corpus weight
- wichen
wichen
48,163 corpus weight
- widerliches
widerliches
48,162 corpus weight
- widersetzte
widersetzte
48,161 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Whistler“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Whistler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwɪslɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Whistler“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Whistler is uncommon German at frequency #51,837 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈwɪslɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "elektromagnetische Welle, die von Blitzen in der Troposphäre ausgesendet werden und entlang der magnetischen Feldlinien der Erde den Raum durchlaufen".
Whistler 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Whistler, spelled W-H-I-S-T-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1elektromagnetische Welle, die von Blitzen in der Troposphäre ausgesendet werden und entlang der magnetischen Feldlinien der Erde den Raum durchlaufen
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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