Whiteboard
[ˈvaɪ̯tbɔːd]
The verdict
“Whiteboard” is uncommon German (frequency #77,544 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,544
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - speziell beschichtete Weißwandtafel, auf der man mit speziellen Whiteboard-Markern (Board-Markern) schreiben kann; das Geschriebene lässt sich leicht mit einem trockenen Schwamm abwischen
Corpus desk
Index DE-whiteboard · Whiteboard · German
Whiteboard · rank #77,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,544
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wettmachen
Nearest frequency peer: wettmachen (-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 „Whiteboard“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Weltraums
Weltraums
22,461 corpus weight
- Werkzeugmac…
Werkzeugmacher
22,459 corpus weight
- wettmachen
wettmachen
22,458 corpus weight
- Whiteboard
Whiteboard
22,457 corpus weight
- Widersprüch…
Widersprüchlichkeit
22,454 corpus weight
- widerstanden
widerstanden
22,453 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Whiteboard“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Whiteboard |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaɪ̯tbɔːd] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Whiteboard“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Whiteboard is uncommon German at frequency #77,544 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvaɪ̯tbɔːd]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Whiteboard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Whiteboard, spelled W-H-I-T-E-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1speziell beschichtete Weißwandtafel, auf der man mit speziellen Whiteboard-Markern (Board-Markern) schreiben kann; das Geschriebene lässt sich leicht mit einem trockenen Schwamm abwischen
- 2elektronische Tafel mit großer Projektionsfläche, die mit einem Computer und Beamer verwendet wird und multimediale Darstellungen ermöglicht, die mithilfe eines Stiftes oder Fingers gesteuert und bearbeitet werden können
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Whiteboard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Whiteboard ist eine Weiterentwicklung der klassischen, mit Kreide zu beschreibenden Schultafel.
Permanent-Marker sollte man nicht auf einem Whiteboard verwenden.
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Antonyms
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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