Wikimedia
[vɪkiˈmeːdi̯a]
The verdict
“Wikimedia” is uncommon German (frequency #57,575 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,575
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kurz für die Non-Profit-Organisation Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Stiftung) zur Förderung des freien Wissens
Corpus desk
Index DE-wikimedia · Wikimedia · German
Wikimedia · rank #57,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,575
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wieweit
Nearest frequency peer: wieweit (-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 „Wikimedia“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- widert
widert
42,428 corpus weight
- wieweit
wieweit
42,427 corpus weight
- Wikimedia
Wikimedia
42,426 corpus weight
- Windsurfen
Windsurfen
42,425 corpus weight
- Winterdienst
Winterdienst
42,424 corpus weight
- Wirbeltiere
Wirbeltiere
42,423 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wikimedia“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wikimedia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [vɪkiˈmeːdi̯a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wikimedia“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wikimedia is uncommon German at frequency #57,575 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [vɪkiˈmeːdi̯a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kurz für die Non-Profit-Organisation Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Stiftung) zur Förderung des freien Wissens".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wikimedia in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Wikimedia, spelled W-I-K-I-M-E-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1kurz für die Non-Profit-Organisation Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Stiftung) zur Förderung des freien Wissens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wikimedia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wikimedia kann sein Geld nur an andere gemeinnützige Stiftungen abgeben.“
„Zudem ist die Wikimedia mit dem Vorwurf konfrontiert, gegen das Urheberrechtsgesetz zu verstoßen.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).